From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. The US economy shed 11, 000 jobs in November. That is according to the Labor Department. That's the smallest loss in two years. Economists say its a sign the nation's job market may finally be turning arou

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The top US commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal is out. President Obama made the announcement after hearing about disparaging remarks the general and his aides made about members of the national security team. We need to remember what

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Business Management Dialogue 1 -It seems there are a growing number of new companies in the field of computers who are headed by very young people.Many of them are only in their twenties and already heading up highly successful companies. -That's tr

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1.He's quite an interesting man. 1.他是个很有趣的人。 Oh, yes, he's absolutely fascinating. 噢,是啊,他真的太棒了。 We talked for hours. 我们谈了好几个小时。 2.Someone told me that it's a really boring book. 2.有人告诉

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1. He's quite an interesting man.1. 他是个很有趣的人。 2. Someone told me that it's a really boring book. 2. 有人告诉我说,这本书很无聊。 3. Is your hotel OK? 3. 你的旅馆还好吗? 4. It was such a funny movie! 4. 这部电影

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Sometime in the 1990s Jagdish Bhagwati, one of India's most distinguished economists, encountered Swaminathan Gurumurthy, 在20世纪90年代某时,印度最杰出的经济学家贾格迪什巴格沃蒂遭遇了斯瓦米那坦古穆绥 a financial

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The biggest thing Mr Gurumurthy is thought to have helped get done is demonetisation in 2016, 普遍认为古穆绥帮助做成的最大一件事就是2016年的货币废止, when 86% of bank notes by value were abruptly withdrawn from circulation

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Finance and Economics;Man and machine; 财经;投资人与经济机器; The economic ideas of the world's most successful hedge-fund boss; 世界最成功的对冲基金经理的经济思想; The most beautiful deleveraging yet seen is how Ra

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Language Barriers Blamed for Miscues 跨国公司高管认为语言障碍导致重大损失 Nearly half the executives at global companies believe language barriers have spoiled cross-border deals and caused financial losses for companies, says a rep

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Despite heavy rains, tens of thousands of people lined the streets of Singapore today to say goodbye to the country's founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. Lee was one of the most influential leaders of the last 100 years. He wa

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13 布什在欧洲受到强烈批评 Bush Faces Strong Criticism in Europe Roger Wilkison Brussels 12 Jun 2001 19:41 UTC As he makes his way across Europe this week, from Spain to Sweden and onward to

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The Americas 美洲 Brazilian Letters: Bard of Belindia 巴西字符:Belindia诗人 An economist become immortal. 不朽的经济学家。 Brazilians who remember the hyper inflationary 1980s cheered the news on April 7th that prices rose by just 4

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Housing 住房 Nimble opposition 灵活的反对 A new study confirms suspicions about what drives planning decisions 一项新的研究证实了对规划决定的推动力的质疑 ON A road called Glyders, in Benfleet, east of London, it looks as t

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Child-free businesses 店内无童 Nippers not wanted 孩子禁入 The rights and wrongs of banning babies 禁止孩子入内的是与非 IT IS a familiar sound. You are enjoying a quiet beer in your local watering-hole when someone starts crying. Un

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My 15-year-old is disinclined to work for her GCSEs, saying her time is better spent preening herself in preparation for assignations with her delightful, diligent, privately educated, moneyed boyfriend. She insists the money spent on nail-painting,

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Mention softbank and most Japanese people, understandably, think of telecomsit is Japan's third-largest wireless carrier. 说起软银,大部分日本人会想到电信行业软银是日本第三大无线营运商。 The company hopes to weaken tha

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The importance of Guinea to China is clear. 几内亚对中国的重要性显而易见。 The authorities in Beijing have promised the government a $20bn loantwice the country's GDPto be paid to Guinea in instalments over 20 years, 北京当局承诺为

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India's Hindu nationalists: 印度的印度教民族主义者: Men in shorts 穿短裤的人们 The election over, Narendra Modi may drop the Hindu right 选举结束,纳伦德拉莫迪或许将限制印度教权力。 Not physical jerks 这可不是

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HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS CORRESPONDENT: Earlier today, I sat down with Swati Dhingra. She's an economist at the London School of Economics, and she has been studying potential impacts of the Brexit ever since the referendum was announced. HARI SREENIVAS

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[00:12]Day 9 [00:14]assist [00:16]Two men are assisting the police in their enquiries. [00:21]bargain [00:23]We made a bargain on the spot that [00:25]I would do the work and he would supply the money. [00:30]barrier [00:32]All the institutional and

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