President Obama meets with Pakistan's Prime Minister at the White House Wednesday a day after an Amnesty International report called some U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and other countries unlawful or indiscriminate. Detroit's battle for bankruptcy g

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President Barack Obama steps out of a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee during his tour the Jefferson North Chrysler Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. President Barack Obama visited two automobile manufacturing plants near Detroit, Michigan, to spotlig

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Its the largest city to file for bankruptcy, thats where a person, company, in this case, a city does not have enough money to pay its debt. The financial crisis hit Detroit and its auto industry hard.People moved away. Businesses left town. It all a

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US Civil Rights Heroine Rosa Parks Honored with Day-Long Funeral 美国举行长达一天的葬礼以纪念民权女英雄罗莎·帕克斯 Civil rights heroine Rosa Parks, who died last week at age 9

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1. Authorities in South Florida say they have solved the 1981 killing of Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh who later gained fame as host of America's Most Wanted. The man believed responsible for the crime, serial killer Ottis Toole, died in prison more

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Just a small town girl, livin' in a lonely world She took the midnight train goin' anywhere Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit He took the midnight train goin' anywhere A singer in a smokey room A smell of wine and cheap perfume For a

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1.The United Auto Workers union says it's going to make changes in its contract. The union also says it will delay billions of dollars in payments to a union-run health care trust. It's all an effort to save jobs and help Detroit's Big Three automak

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By Greg Flakus Detroit 18 January 2008 At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this week, there are hundreds of new cars on display that achieve high fuel efficiency and reduce pollution. Also on hand are representatives of the priva

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'Revenge of Electric Car' Takes a Wild Ride In his 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car , filmmaker Chris Paine examined the birth and premature death of battery electric cars in the mid-1990s. Now Paine is back with the commercial release o

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The U.S. auto giant General Motors emerged from bankruptcy Friday, and GM officials announced extensive changes designed to win back consumers and restore the luster of what has long been one of the country's most prestigious corporations. Fritz Hen

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: There are few brands more quintessentially American than Jeep. And now it seems possible that a foreign company could purchase Jeep from Fiat-Chrysler, its parent company. At the moment these are just rumors. Those rumors point to

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today from StoryCorps on this Friday, we have memories of a Chinese-American immigrant killed 35 years ago today. Vincent Chin was a draftsman living near Detroit. In 1982, Chin and a group of friends went out to celebrate his up

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: You don't need fiction to escape into a good summer read. Janet Webster Jones knows this. She's the owner of Source Booksellers in Detroit, a store that specializes in nonfiction. It's actually not her first job. JANET WEBSTER JO

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今天我们要学的词是luxury。Luxury, 意思是奢侈。luxury brand 奢侈品牌,luxury hotel豪华酒店。2012年北京国际车展开幕, Global luxury auto makers are piling in to tap the Chinese market, 全球各地的豪华车品牌争

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今天我们要学的词是tipping point。 Tipping point, 是指变化一触即发的临界点。 Experts warned that a bankruptcy of one of Detroit's Big Three could create a 'tipping point' that will bring the entire industry to a halt, 专家警告

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今天我们要学的词是revive。 Revive, 动词,意思是使某人或某事重生,重振。 The International Monetary Fund agreed to revive lending to Kosovo, 国际货币基金组织同意恢复对科索沃的贷款项目。 Nissan is consi

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今天我们要学的词是bumpy road。 Bumpy road坎坷的道路。A bumpy road lies ahead for the U.S. auto industry, 美国汽车工业前途曲折。美国六月份失业率是9.5%。The current unemployment rate highlights the bumpy road to rec

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Every year around this time, American car companies start rolling out their newest, shiniest models, hoping to entice you into buying one. 每年的这个时节,美国的汽车厂商们都会拿出自己的看家本领,推出自己最新最炫的车

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Topics: Movie: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Detroit and the Rust Belt; to knead versus to mash; the infinitive versus gerund form of a verb (to look for versus looking for); bona fide Words: to name a replacement naive to manipulate to propose a bil

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Topics: American Cities: Detroit; wills, living wills, and advance healthcare directives; solution and solve vs. resolution and resolve; family vs. household Words: waterfront property synonymous unemployment rate to cross racial lines last will and

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