The Millionaire next door Twenty years ago we began studying how people become wealthy. 1) Initially, we did it just as you might imagine: by surveying people in so-called up-scale neighbourhoods acro

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(151) / 评论(0) 分类 疯狂英语2003年

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坚持不懈,直到成功。 我们每天的奋斗就像对参天大树的一次砍击,头几刀可能了无痕迹。每一击看似微不足道,然而,累积起来,巨树终会倒下。这恰

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Southern States Among the Poorest in US 南方各州是美国最贫穷的地方 Southern states are some of the poorest in the U.S., while wealth lives mostly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Mississippi is the nations poorest state, says t

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US Universities Working Together to Help Poor Students Michigan State University has long worked with and competed against other colleges and universities in the United States. Michigan State, a public research university, often works on joint resear

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3.基尼系数 Gini coefficien 国家统计局局长马建堂首次披露过去10年全国居民基尼系数的变化后,北京也将适时公布本地区的基尼系数。 Beijing will release its own Gini coefficient for 2012, a National Bureau o

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Tax reform in America;A simple bare necessity; 文艺;书评;美国税改;必须做的一件事; The Benefit and the Burden: Tax ReformWhy We Need It and What It Will Take. By Bruce Bartlett. 《效益与负担:

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Finance and Economics; Free exchange; Body of evidence; 财经;自由交流专栏;关于金融危机的大量证据; Is a concentration of wealth at the top to blame for financial crises? 金融危机是否应归咎于财富向上层的集中?

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Finance and Economics;Free exchange;Zero-sum debate; 财经;自由兑换; 零和争论; Economists are rethinking the view that capital should not be taxed; 经济学家正重新考虑是否要推翻不该对资本征税的观点。 Executives th

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Childrens performance at school is more dependent on the area in which they grow up than parental income, a new study suggests. 一项新研究证明,儿童在学校里的学习成绩更容易受成长环境的影响,而不是受父母收入的影响

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Our children, of course, are priceless. But they do have a cost: about a quarter-million dollars。 我们的孩子当然是无价之宝。但养育他们确实是需要成本的:大约25万美元。 A new government report estimated that a middle-

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Taxes on wage income vary heavily around the world. 世界各地的工资税率大不相同。 The OECD recently published a report comparing the tax burden on wages in the world's developed economies. One of the main measures the OECD used in the re

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President Ma Ying-jeou has agreed to a request from the opposition to invite the Dalai Lama next week, to comfort victims(受害者) of deadly Typhoon Morakot. China usually voices anger at nations that welcome the Dalai Lama, whom it views as a d

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dock pay 扣薪 unpaid leave 无薪假 before-tax salary 税前薪水 income tax 所得税 take-home pay/after-tax salary 税后净薪 release pay 遣散费 severance pay 解雇费 salary deduction 罚薪 casual leave 事假 sick leave 病假

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Special report: (A special report on Singapore) The rich are always with us Inequality. But we don't like them that much. 特别报道:(一份新加坡的特别报道)虽然富人总与我们同在,但是我们并不喜欢他们 Measured by i

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Caps on how much individuals can borrow, in the form of maximum loan-to-value (LTV) and debt-to-income ratios, are another option. 以最大价值贷款比(LTV)和债务收入比率的形式限制个人贷款上限是另一种选择。 A recent IMF s

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New figures released by HM Revenue and Customs reveal those in the top 1 per cent of earners pay a quarter of all income tax. A quarter of all of Britain's income tax revenues this year will be paid by just one per cent of earners, according to offic

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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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Today we have higher buildings and wider highways, but shorter temperaments and narrower points of view. 今, 吾辈居愈高行愈广,然性愈燥视愈短。 We spend more, but enjoy less. 费愈靡然享愈少。 We have bigger houses, but sma

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