Fridays are awesome. This one knows a little bit sweet because it is our last show of 2013. We are going to look back at some of the stories we covered this year, but first up, we've got congressional compromise. We are talking about budget, a plan f

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1850 Compromise on Slavery Aims to Save Union 1850年对奴隶制的妥协旨在拯救联盟 From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning American English. Im Steve Ember. Th

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Groups opposed to Liyban leader Moammar Gadhafi say they are in control of most of the eastern part of the country and plan to keep pushing until the current government is gone. The opposition says there is no room for compromise. The uprising that i

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This is AP News Minute. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer says a lot of his fellow democrats oppose his stop-gap budget measure that would keep the government open after a Friday night deadline. Some republicans say the bill may not have enough GO

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Franklin Pierce was elected the fourteenth president in eighteen fifty-two. He was forty-eight years old, one of America's youngest presidents. Pierce was the comp

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Last night, after weeks of long and difficult negotiations over our national budget, leaders of both parties came together to avert a government shutdown, cut spending, and invest in our future. This is good news for the American people. It means tha

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MicroMax公司销售部主管Fred 给客户Tom打电话,讨论涨价的事情。 Susan (secretary): Hello, Tom Grossman's office. How may I help you? Fred Lim: Hi, Susan. This is Fred Lim from MicroMax. Is Tom available for a second? Susan: One mom

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Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper, welcome to the podcast. Finally some signs the adults are taking control in Capitol Hill, perhaps, several key Republicans now say they'll support higher tax rates on the reach to get a deal done. But it's still ridiculous, l

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今天我们要学的词是hammer out。 To hammer out, 是经过深入讨论后做出决定的意思。全球最大的气候变化国际会议星期一在哥本哈根开幕。World leaders will try to hammer out a new global agreement to cut carbon

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This is AP News Minute. The White House isn't denying that President Trump used a vulgar expression to describe the countrys that many immigrants in the US come from. The comment has triggered outrage and was delivered as two senators were presenting

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Millard Fillmore In eighteen fifty, President Zachary Taylor died after serving about a year and a half in office. Taylor's vice president, Millard Fillmore, took his plac

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Daniel Webster In eighteen fifty, the United States faced the threat of a split between northern and southern states. The two sides disagreed strongly over the

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'Red Shirt' protesters sleep behind photos of the recent violent clashes between protesters and government forces in Bangkok, Thailand, 12 May 2010 The Thai government is stepping up efforts to isolate red shirt protesters in central Bangkok by shutt

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In U.S. politics, there is no issue that divides Democrats and Republicans more than their vastly different views on the role and size of the central government. That political divide is at the heart of the intensifying debate over the federal budget

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: At a time when much of the country says that it hates Washington, D.C., politics, power brokers, spin doctors and compromise, not to mention the press, the executive director of the American Press Institute has written a novel that

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President Bush is urging members of the U.S. Congress to overcome their differences and pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The president acknowledges reaching a compromise will not be easy. 美国总统布什星期四呼吁国会议员克服

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Israelis to View UN Videotapes Wednesday Breck Ardery United Nations 8 Aug 2001 01:24 UTC United Nations officials and Israeli 1)diplomats have agreed on the ground rules governing the viewing of vide

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South Korea is welcoming a compromise between the United States and North Korea on inspecting the North's nuclear facilities. The deal removes North Korea from a U.S. list of suspected terrorism sponsors. As Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports, S

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Dialogue 1 Mark: Well, Jingjing, the Spring Festival is coming up. Are you ready for your cruise? 马克:京晶,春节就快到了。准备好开启你的游轮之旅了吗? Jingjing: You mean that cruise I booked last fall? That fell through.

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By Edward Yeranian Cairo 08 November 2009 The Iraqi parliament has approved a long delayed electoral law, amid bitter quarrels among Arab, Kurdish and Turkomen politicians. The electoral law is necessary for parliamentary elections to be held close

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