哈皮和安德鲁今天讨论的是话题是去加拿大旅游..... Harp: OK, so I think we should get started with todays episode. Andrew: Yes. And todays episode is all about travelling in Canada, but with a little twist. Harp: Yes. Were going to

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UK capital London rose from 11th to 6th, a position held by Melbourne last year. And it is rarely referred to as a budget-friendly city. 英国首都伦敦的排名有所上升,从11名到现在6名,取代了去年墨尔本的位置。 refer to 涉

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57 经济萧条导致预算盈余骤减 IN THE NEWS - September 1, 2001: Federal Budget/Social SecurityBy Paul Thompson (start at 1’06”)This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN

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Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has introduced a bill that would chop a half trillion dollars out of the federal budget. And although Paul was trained as an ophthalmologist, his axe doesn't show any mercy to science. For example, Paul would

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Republican critics are criticizing President Obama's 2013 budget plan which seeks four trillion dollars in deficit reduction in the next decade. It calls for government spending cuts which the GOP supports but it also seeks an end to tax breaks for t

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1. The big budget battle starts on the Hill today. President Obamas budget chief will testify before a House committee today about the administration's nearly four-trillion-dollar spending plan. Republicans say proposed cuts aren't deep enough. 2.I

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1. Experts are looking for clues in the debris to determine just how many tornadoes hit the Dallas-Fort Worth region yesterday. The storms damaged hundreds of homes, but there are no reports of fatalities. One tornado may have reached 165 miles an ho

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Bush holds a laptop computer showing the electronic version of his 2009 budget This week, President Bush sent Congress the final budget of his presidency. The spending plan for two thousand

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AS IT IS 2015-09-19 Brazil Announces Spending Cuts, New Taxes 巴西宣布削减开支和开征新税 President Dilma Rouseff speaks about proposed budget cuts in Brasilia. The government is seeking to reduce a deficit in the 2016 budget. The governm

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US Student on 'Budget' Tour Held in N. Korea An American student has been arrested in North Korea. The arrest is the latest in a series of arrests of U.S. citizens. Analysts say North Korea uses the citizens as bargaining chips. The student is Otto F

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Emergency funding 据《华盛顿邮报》报道,五角大楼和国会消息人士透露,美国总统布什准备再向国会申请拨款700亿美元,用于在伊拉克和阿富汗境内的军事行动。如果这项申请通过的话,美国自

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THE Republican majority in the House of Representatives called its budget proposal The path to prosperity: A blueprint for American renewal. Whether it would live up to that billing we will never know, as Democratic opposition in the Senate will prev

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The United States has, for many diseases, 事实上,美国在很多疾病上, actually a quality which is below the average 的保健质量是低于OECD平均水平的。 Now, if the American healthcare system would focus a lot more on measuring qu

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property 物业,资产 interest 产权 subsidiary 附属机构,子公司 valuation 评估 open market value 公开市场价值 leaseback 售后回租(即租回已出售的财产) on a residual

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Lexington 莱克星顿 Fun on a budget 预算趣录 Congress is incapable of restraining spending. It should let the president try 国会无力控制开支,也许该放手让总统一试 AT THE end of Barack Obama's budget, which was published on F

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MARGARET WARNER:The plan to triple college tuition fees is part of a broad budget rebalancing program now being put in place by Britain's Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, and his coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats. The measure passed

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GWEN IFILL: There's been a lot of talk about the politics behind the bipartisan budget agreement. We take a closer look now at the devil in those details. Senate Democrats were happy today to tout the budget deal headed to the president's desk. Budge

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The government is going to change the repayment rate for student loans. At the moment, when graduates earn a minimum of $19,084 a year (that is $367 a week), they have to start repaying the loan at a rate of 10% of their pay until the full loan is pa

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The Minister of Education, Hekia Parata, today announced changes which will affect teachers. She said that class sizes for Years 2 to 10 will average 27 students. This means that some classes will be slightly bigger while others will be slightly smal

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今天我们要学的词是ample。 Ample, 是充足的意思。 The price of crude oil fell amid ample supply, 原油供给充足,造成价格下跌。 There is ample evidence that she is better qualified for the position than the other candidates

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