The Sundance Film Festival gets under way with a promise to return to its roots, showcasing independent films. Founder Robert Redford is also urging festival-goers to remember the earthquake victims in Haiti. Live now to Sundance in Park City, Utah.

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(一)月

Hong Kong was the staging point for a conference described as Asia's first transhumanism event, in late 2011. 2011年底,香港举办了据说是亚洲第一个超人类主义(transhumanism)活动。 (Note: don't bother to check the English-Chi

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. BP is coming under mounting pressure to step up its response to the country's worst ever oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. It's coming down from top Obama administration officials who've been dispatched

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IMF Unhappy with Zimbabwe Policies HARARE The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Zimbabwe's large debt remains a serious impediment to the country's financial future. Ruling out retiring Zimbabwe's $10 billion debt, which is what the country's fi

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Donald Trump has threatened to overturn two decades of US economic policy by questioning the strong value of the dollar, raising fears that his presidency could set off a new round of currency wars between the big economies. 唐纳德`特朗普(Donal

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North Americas share of global output has fallen much less than that of Europe or Latin America over the past 20 years, undermining US President Donald Trumps claims that unfair trade deals have been detrimental to American workers in particular. 过去

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BEIJING, Aug. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Since the beginning of 2011, China has taken a series of measures to cool rising prices, such as introducing a prudent monetary policy, boosting supply and containing inrrational demand while establishing a price contr

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世博会正式开园,园内有不少独立展馆。顾名思义,独立展馆即单独设管的意思。比如说古巴,以往都是与其他拉美国家合用一个展馆,而在此次的上海世博会上,首次设立独立的展馆。那么

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- After its final policy meeting of this year, the U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced to continue pumping money into the economy by buying assets and hold its short-term rate near zero until the unemployment rat

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A small college outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, called Hendrix College, is about to get a new president. His name is William Tsutsui. He's a Harvard- and Princeton-educated economist. But he's most known for his expertise in Godzilla. Yes, Godzilla

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

Germany's economy 德国经济 Watching the wages 看工资 Germany's economy stutters, even if the fundamentals are strong 即使家底殷实,依然难逃困境 BLAMING Germanyor at least the austerity prescribed for the euro zone by Chancellor An

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人文艺系列

Aviation capacity 航空动力 Limited skies 领空限制 Expanding airport capacity in the south-east is a bet on the future of travel 扩大东南地区的航空能力对旅行的未来至关重要 EVEN before Sir Howard Davies, an economist mullin

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FRANKFURT, June 21 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese economy is healthy and has great potential for further development, a leading German economist has said. In the macroeconomic sense, the Chinese economy is still extremely healthy if one looks at the growth

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Pfizer and AstraZeneca 辉瑞-阿斯利康 A matter of trust 信任问题 British politicians are understating their nation's appeal to drugs firms 英国政客低估了英国对制药企业的吸引 IAN READ, the chief executive of Pfizer, an Americ

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Properties near stately homes cost ?41,000 more than the average house in the same county, research reveals. 调查显示,庄园宅邸周边的房屋价格比同一郡县平均房价高出4.1万英镑。 A study claims the Downton Abbey effect mean

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If, 20 or 30 years from now, central banks and sovereign wealth funds hold a significant portion of their reserves in renminbi-denominated assets, financial historians will probably look back on 2015 as a turning point. 如果二、三十年后,各国

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穷国拒绝成功的机会? A Harvard professor said developing countries were forced down an economic path in the 20th Century that lacked innovation, entrepreneurship and technology. As a result, he said, they had stunted development, while many

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Leaders 社论 Minimum wages 最低工资标准 The logical floor 多少才合理 Moderate minimum wages do more good than harm. They should be set by technocrats not politicians 实施适度的最低工资标准利大于弊,但是它们应该由技术

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The IMF's model did not allow for an Iraqi invasion. 国际货币基金组织的模型并未考虑到伊拉克的入侵。 But other errors are less easily explained: between 1990 and 2007, the IMF's spring forecasts underestimated global growth in 1

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不确定性阻碍了美国经济发展 WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve's expansionary monetary policy to some extent has boosted U.S. economic growth, but the U.S. economy and business owners are confronted with great uncerta

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