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President Obama wants Congress to finish work on healthcare legislation. Hes calling on lawmakers to bring bills to the floor and vote on them. Republicans hate the bills and many want to scrap the existing legislation. And Mr. Obama says thats a fat
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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Five women were honored last week in Washington for their efforts to increase the economic and political progress of women. Vital Voices, an international nonprofit organization, presented its Globa
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And while a few Indonesians have recently joined ISIS, 虽然最近还是有些印尼人加入伊斯兰国 their number is tiny, far fewer in per capita terms than the number of Belgians. 但他们的数量是非常少的,按人均来计算比比利时
So even though we've been growing, the structure of the economies has not changed very much. 即使我们一直在发展,经济的机构并没有什么改变。 We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what? It's exporting j