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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Sometimes, financial news can be hard to understand. Here, a former official of Goldman Sachs investment bank explains what his group did before the financial crisis. JOSH BIRNBAUM: Our desk began to
The song you are about to hear came about through a chance meeting. The singer, Donna Summer, was having a meal with her manager in an expensive restaurant in the plush Beverly Hills area of Los Angel
最终(at last)这首歌曲就象没加糖的苦咖啡的味道,音乐缓缓传来,反复吟唱中如同烟雾弥漫,晚霞的余晖缓缓消退,只留下沉郁的空气在天空游走。。。 at last all my love has come along my lonely
IN THE NEWS - Gates Says NATO Could Face 'Irrelevance' in the Future This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American Defense Secretary Robert Gates has told NATO members that they need to do more -- and spend more -- to support the alliance. ROB
IN THE NEWS - Obama Sets Plan for 'Leaner' Military 时事新闻 - 奥巴马制定国防新战略 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语时事新闻节目。 This week, President Obama announced a new defense pl
Pentagon Sends More Warships to Pacific By 2020 the Pentagon plans to shift 60 percent of its naval assets to the Pacific, in contrast to the current 50-50 split with the Atlantic. The move is part of the Obama administrations strategic pivot to Asia
US Says Haqqanis Behind Afghan Attacks The coalition says the attacks mark the start of the spring fighting season in Afghanistan. Militants pounded Kabul and other parts of eastern Afghanistan in coordinated attacks for nearly 18 hours. The Taliban
Cash-Strapped Pentagon to Boost Latin American Partnerships Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stopped first in Colombia, where U.S. trained commandos welcomed him with a hostage rescue demonstration and other maneuvers at a base two hours from Bogota. C
Karzai Makes His Case For Post-2014 US Assistance The Pentagon was an important stop for President Hamid Karzai to discuss a security arrangement for after U.S. combat troops leave Afghanistan. Standing with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Karza
Actors Robert De Niro and Edward Norton unite in John Curran's new psychological drama Stone. The story revolves around flawed people who have to face their weaknesses as their lives spin out of control. The early release of Gerald Greeson, also know
Foundation to Send More American Students to China Christie Civetta is one of thousands of American students abroad in Beijing this year through the 100,000 Strong Initiative, a program that aims to increase the number of Americans studying in China.
Pentagon Braces for Automatic Cuts Among the early signs of tough times that sequester will bring: the Pentagon this month announced will not deploy the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman to the Persian Gulf. The timing for the massive cuts is bad. A c
Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are engaged in a new dispute over the Central Intelligence Agency, involving allegations the CIA misled Congress. Leon Panetta (file photo) The latest controversy was sparked by a letter
The Senate Armed Services Committee has held a hearing on President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta. Panetta, the current Central Intelligence Agency Director, was warmly received by the panel, but faced
今天我们要学的词是at the expense of。At the expense of, 意思是以某件事或者某个人为代价。沸沸扬扬的占领华尔街运动继续在美国各大城市上演。 Protesters accused the richest 1 % of accumulating their wealth
1. Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, said President Barack Obama will decide in the next few weeks how many US troops will stay on in Afghanistan after the combat mission officially ends two years from now. Panetta is in Afghanistan on an announced vi
Integrating the buses in Montgomery had worked. But Martin Luther King, Jr., knew that this was just the beginning. Martin and other black leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia. They formed a civil rights group called the Southern Christian Leadership Conf
今天我们要学的词是 dysfunctional. Dysfunctional 形容词,存在功能障碍的,运转失灵的。A new poll finds that nearly 6 out of 10 Americans say the U.S. political system is more dysfunctional under President Trump. 一项新民调
今天我们要学的词是off-guard。 Off-guard, 是没有提防,缺乏警惕的意思。以色列炮轰加沙后,联合国在加沙地区的一位高级官员说, We were caught off-guard by the operation, 这次行动让我们丝毫没有防备