The season for buying Christmas gifts is the busiest time for most stores and online retailers in the United States. Final numbers for the holiday season including after-Christmas sales will not be known for a while. But a report this week on retail

发表于:2018-12-01 / 阅读(95) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年VOA慢速英语(十二)月

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Information wants to be free, the saying goes. But the debate over net neutrality could define how free the exchange of information is going to be in the future. Net neutrality is the idea that every

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. America's biggest carmaker accepted fifty billion dollars in federal aid from the Obama and Bush administrations. People joked that GM meant Government Motors. Now, General Motors could be on the road

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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

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This weekend, leaders and top finance officials from the worlds twenty biggest economies gather in Toronto, Canada. One of the big issues to discuss is how and when to reduce deficits and economic gro

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AS IT IS 2014-09-03 Low Birthrate Threatens South Korea's Survival 低出生率威胁韩国生存 South Koreas National Assembly Research Service says no one will be living in the country by 2750 if women there do not start having more children. Last

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. BlackBerry service is facing limits or bans in some countries over the issue of government access to information on its network. Research in Motion, or RIM, based in Waterloo, Canada, makes BlackBerry

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week's meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the third Group of 20 summit in less than a year. Leaders of the major developed and developing economies discussed ways to fix the world financia

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Mark Hurd got credit for building Hewlett-Packard into the world's largest technology company. H-P is the top seller of personal computers and printers. It had sales last year of almost one hundred fifteen billion dollars. Mr. Hurd became chief execu

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama now turns his attention to financial reform after his victory last month on health care. He met Wednesday with congressional leaders from both parties at the White House. Republicans a

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. European Union officials agreed on a debt rescue plan this week. They also got a message from Britain's new governing parties. WILLIAM HAGUE: It was not difficult to agree between us that neither part

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Officials in Washington recently lost a ruling over their power to enforce competition on the Internet. Now the Federal Communications Commission has a new plan. The F.C.C. currently defines high-spee

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Greece's debt crisis has shaken investors in the United States and worldwide. They worry that it could spread far beyond Greece. On Thursday, a day after huge protests in Athens, the Greek parliament

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Commodities are basic materials that are used and traded worldwide. The price of commodities helps determine how much a business can charge for a product and the profit it can make. Commodity prices h

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Continuing debt problems in Greece and Portugal. The banking crisis in Ireland. A trillion-dollar deficit in the United States. These are all reasons why high levels of public debt are a big worry aro

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Federal Reserve calls Americas economic recovery disappointingly slow. So the Federal Reserve decided Wednesday to add six hundred billion dollars to the financial system by the middle of next yea

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Microfinance is a fast-growing part of the financial industry in many developing countries. Micro lenders give small loans to poor people to start or expand businesses. Microcredit offers a chance to

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Toyota became the world's largest automaker in two thousand eight. But after years of building loyalty, the Japanese company may have put its quality brand name at risk, at least temporarily. Toyota i

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Leaders of the European Union say they will help Greece as it struggles under a mountain of debt. They promise to take action, if needed, to safeguard financial stability in the euro area as a whole.

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A researcher says three hundred forty-three thousand AIDS deaths in South Africa in the last ten years could have been prevented. Nicoli Nattrass blames the former government of Thabo Mbeki for dela

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