Well, first the military takes the biggest chunk, 726 billion dollars in 2011. Wow! We could build a lot of better future with that kind of money. Spending billions on fighter planes we don't need or wars with no end and then saying we're broke just

发表于:2018-12-03 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 英语解说豆知识2011年

President Bush has signed a bill committing $48 billion to the global fight against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from the White House, the bill vastly expands a U.S. program that already treats millions in Africa, Sou

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An effort to help American veterans get medical care faster is not working. NPR and some of its member stations have investigated a multi-billion dollar U.S. government program for veterans. It is supposed to add more doctors, nu

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 29 February 2008 The Indian government says it will spend billions of dollars to help farmers and revive the rural economy. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the promise comes ahead of general elections scheduled

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By Dorian Jones Istanbul 28 March 2008 Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast has been the center of a bloody 20-year conflict between the Turkish state and Kurds fighting for autonomy. For decades, the region has remained one of the poorest in the

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 25 January 2007 Lebanon's embattled government received a generous boost Thursday when donors meeting in Paris pledged more than $7.5 billion in assistance, including loans. Lisa Bryant has more on the meeting for VOA from the F

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 15 May 2008 French banking giant Credit Agricole says it will sell billions of dollars in assets to deal with subprime losses by its investment arm. From Paris, Lisa Bryant reports the new financial blow adds to the economic worr

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Report: Billions Spent on US Immigration Enforcement Have Impact Like so many people in the United States, Claudia Hernandez wakes up every day, goes to work and comes home to take care of her children. Only Hernandez is not a U.S. citizen. I came wh

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Nurses, Unions Propose Wall Street Tax National Nurses United, a 165,000 member union, is leading organized labor in the United States in a challenge to Wall Street, its practices, and what the nurses call Wall Street's sway over politicians. The nur

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Billions of Dollars Lost Each Year to Illegal Logging The joint report, called Green Carbon / Black Trade, says between 30 and 100 billion dollars are lost each year to the illegal timber trade. Much of the loss is centered in key logging countries i

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The African Union is considering a proposal to demand at least $67 billion a year in environmental damages from developed countries at the Copenhagen Climate summit in December. Africa is seeking a common position to increase its bargaining power in

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Companies and corporations are in business to make money for themselves, their workers, their stockholders. But can they make too much? Ralph Nader thinks Apple hit that limit earlier this month when it became the first trillion-do

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It's really a wonderful time to be an astronomer, especially in studies of Milk Way. Were undergoing something for revolution. In fact, we can take you places. They're really quite remarkable. We are about to embark on an amazing journey. We'll take

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An implosion that launches an explosion creating enough heat and energy to forge almost all the other elements.The supernova explosion is able to produce some of the very rare elements heavier than iron, the zinc, the gold, the platinum, the silver,

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 17 December 2007 International donors pledged $7.4 billion over the next three years to help the cashed-strapped Palestinian government. Lisa Bryant has more for VOA from the Paris donors' conference. Spread out over a three-year

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A congressionally appointed panel studying human space flight said this month it will take $3 billion more, per year, for the U.S. to send humans out of low earth orbit in the next decade. Members of the U.S. Human Space Flight Committee testified i

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By Mil Arcega Washington 11 March 2008 Despite losses in the billions of dollars in risky home loans, those who run the companies responsible for so-called subprime loans reported huge earnings last year. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill questioned the chie

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 04 January 2008 The newly elected South Korean president says he will create a multi-billion dollar fund to help North Korea once he takes office. But, Pyongyang would only get that help if it gives up its nuclear weapons programs

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今年最强流感病毒来袭;习马会成果展 Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Suyi Coming up: --Countries along the Lancang-Mekong River eye stronger ties --Billions of deals have b

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1794 replica 今天我们要学的词是replica. Replica 是复制品的意思。Lego built a life-sized replica of an X-Wing Fighter, the iconic spaceship from the Return of the Jedi. 乐高公司搭建了一个跟星球大战6杰迪归来里的经典

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