VOA常速英语2013--中东动乱令以色列不安

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在市场经济中，一个能够调控买卖双方关系甚至调控生产资源分配的重要因素就是： Price 价格。 在这一讲中，我们就跟您谈谈价格和它的功能。 价格可以

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Benefits and incentives Speaker one: It is great. Because usually you meet my wife can use one of the home. And we also even take mina I work. I work for quite a relax company. And they dont seem to mind how I use for leisure. I thought it wont chang

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German Reunification Provides Lessons for EU Expansion In 1989, Germany removed the barbed wire that had divided the country for a near 50-year face-off during the Cold War. Optimism abounded as many

VOA双语新闻 Nuclear Military Site

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says the Iranian government has agreed to give his inspectors access to what had been an off limits military site where the United States believes the country may be developing a nuclear weapon. 国际原子

2015年CRI Response to Government Push for New Energy Vehicles not Encouraging

The government hopes that incentives can help alleviate Beijing's worsening air pollution -- a significant part of which is blamed on motor vehicles. But most potential car buyers think the new energy vehicles predominantly battery driven ones -- may

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 24 October 2007 African leaders from the government, civil society and private sectors are in Burkina Faso for a three-day U.N. conference on good governance. Organizers say despite recent democratic reforms, the continent still

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Zimbabwe's parliament is expected to pass a constitutional amendment leading to the formation of a power-sharing government as outlined last week at a regional summit meeting. Reaction among the estimated three million Zimbabweans living in neighbor

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For decades men without much education could make a very good living by mining coal. The loss of those jobs has stung as the coal industry has declined. Renewable power, especially solar power, is now where jobs are. So we wondered

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South Korea's newly appointed foreign minister is warning talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities could stall over unresolved issues related to the North's promised declaration. However, officials in Seoul are optimistic a on

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President Bush says he is confident that a series of tax rebates and business incentives will help ease the pain of a slowing U.S. economy. 美国总统布什星期五表示，他确信，退税和商业刺激措施将有助于缓解美国经济发展减

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The Bush administration is defending its handling of the U.S. economy at a time of growing public unease. During a series of interviews on American television Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson stressed the government will do what it takes to maintain

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Agriculture ministers from the Group of 8 most industrialized countries are meeting near Treviso in in northern Italy this weekend for the first time to discuss food security and measures to boost farming output. Talks will focus on efforts to avert

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The U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency is in Beijing for discussions expected to focus on Iran's uranium nuclear program. China has been reluctant to support tougher U.N. sanctions against Tehran. 美国驻国际原子能机构大

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The U.S. says it wants to see North Korea return to six-party denuclearization talks before it considers negotiations involving a wider range of issues. U.S. officials commented Monday after North Korea called for peace talks with the U.S. and an end

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US Vice President Joe Biden says the U.S is prepared to hold direct talks with Iran in the standoff over its nuclear ambitions. Biden made the comment at the annual Munich security conference, saying the talks will have to be real. We have made it cl

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模仿文本： His government today revealed new financial incentives for councils which back fracking. At the same time the French energy giant TOTAL said it would invest at least $20 million in projects in Britain. Anti-fracking campaigners, thoug