Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York today, President Obama said the world's leaders who have criticized the US for acting on its own need to join him in tackling global problems. At his first address as president to UN attend

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 2009年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

New plans to try to contain BP's massive oil spill are in place. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports the company's managing director visited the Sunday news talk shows today to explain its latest containment strategy. It's clear that no long-term solution is ye

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

Senators are voting this afternoon on whether to wrap up debate on a financial regulatory overhaul bill. There's NPR's Audie Cornish. If senators vote to limit debate, then only amendments that are key to the issue of the financial industry bill will

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

Another setback for BP today: a small fire broke out on a ship that's been drawing up crude from the source of the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The fire's out; no one was injured. But NPR's Richard Harris says it did stop containment effo

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(103) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Triple-digit gains on Wall Street have(口误) been wiped out. At last check, the Dow was down eight points at 10,443, NASDAQ losing 20 points at 2,289. We'll check back on those numbers a little bit later on. About 35% of the more than million homeo

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Northern California Wildfires Become Larger Wildfires continue to spread in northern California. American weather experts were predicting high winds and low humidity levels in the area on Thursday. Such conditions are making it difficult to stop the

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年VOA慢速英语(十)月

Oil spill, Day 42 of this oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Still there is no end in sight for this crisis. Right now take a look with me. Work under water and under way to place a custom built dome over that ruptured well. Remember that effort top ki

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(六)月

State police say the number of people missing after a flash flooding in Arkansas is down to about two dozen. The early Friday floods have killed at least 17 people. NPR's Wade Goodwyn is near the campgrounds in Langley, Arkansas and tells us more tha

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

Israel is taking its first step toward calming worldwide outrage over its recent raid of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Palestinian officials say Israel is easing its embargo, allowing snack foods and other previously banned items, but Hamas, which runs

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(88) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

BP says the containment cap that are rigged on its shattered oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is working, but US officials say the effort to contain the spill has only just begun. NPR's Brian Mann reports. In its first day of operation Friday, the cap

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台6月

President Obama's latest nominee to the US Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, says she's grateful for what she called the honor of a lifetime. Mr. Obama says he chose Kagan in part because she understands that law is not an intellectual exercise, a thought

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台5月

Engineers using undersea robots have removed the containment cap on BP's gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The next step is to replace the cap with one that fits better. That will allow all of the oil to be funneled to tankers on the surface. B

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

Much of the East Coast has steeped in a prolonged heatwave that could reach historic levels in some areas. Forecasters are predicting triple-digit temperatures that, they say, could cause a dangerous situation. In New York, Emergency Management Commi

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(91) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台7月

New York City police are searching for a white man in his 40s who may have been behind a failed car bombing in Times Square last night. They're poring over hundreds of hours of video surveillance from the area. The device was found in a Nissan Pathfi

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领导者的情况可以是千变万化的,但领导者必须具备的要素却大同小异。无论你是只负责一个部门,一个小公司,还是统领富可敌国的跨国大集团,有十大要点你不可不知。 1. Give direction. 确定

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

HOUSTON, July 25 (Xinhua) -- A shelter-in-place was ordered after a battery caught fire during a testing at NASA's Johnson Space Center Monday morning. A battery was being tested inside a containment system when it got overheated and caught fire at a

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

There are several types of difficult people at work; a difficult coworker can be the slow one, or the overly perfectionist, or the extremely demanding or the lazy one. Many of those I consider harmless or avoidable; in the sense that they don't reall

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

Fourth confirmed swine flu case 第四例猪流感确诊病例 Anti-viral drugs are being issued to treat those affected by the flu A fourth case of swine flu has been confirmed in Northern Ireland. A man who has recently returned from Florida has tested posi

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

BOGOTA, April 10 (Xinhua) -- Oil spilled into Colombia's Caribbean waters on Wednesday after two ships collided, the Colombian government said. The accident occurred in the Bay of Colombia early Wednesday, when the oil-carrying Singaporean ship CRCCO

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(74) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

The United States, Japan and trade 亚太贸易协定:美国与日本 Don't treat trade as a weapon 别将贸易协定作为武器 An Asian-Pacific trade deal looks within reach, but politicians should stop seeing it as a way to contain China 亚太贸

发表于:2019-03-09 / 阅读(128) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列