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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week American Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced details of a plan aimed at removing billions of dollars in bad debts from American banks. The government program has two parts. One involv
They are only a few weeks old, but these octuplets are already the center of public outrage. Los Angeles police say they plan to investigate death threats against their mom, Nadya Suleman. The 33-year-old single, unemployed mother has been getting hu
The economic crisis has spread into many areas of the U.S. economy--banks, investment firms, insurance companies, and even the oil markets. But as VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington, experts seem to agree that the trouble started with bad loan
三角洲通讯公司老板John Smith到银行申请贷款,接待他的是银行负责人Ted Johnson。 Johnson抱怨最近两年经济危机,贷款很难做,经常会迫不得已走法律程序,追缴贷款。 T: I do sympathize with people'
Reporter: Right. Tell me what had happened to Citibank. Not going all the way back-and I want to talk about risk management in a secondbut why was the stock collapsing? And why did you feel it was necessary to say we need to do something about short
By Barry Wood Washington 03 December 2007 The Bush administration has outlined measures intended to avoid a massive and potentially politically damaging wave of home foreclosures. VOA's Barry Wood has more from Washington. Treasury Secretary Henry Pa
1. Same sex marriage is now legal in Minnesota and Rhode Island. Both states began issuing marriage licenses on Thursday. 2. Ariel Castro goes to court in Cleveland on Thursday, to be sentenced for kidnapping three women, raping them and holding them
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The American housing collapse was a major cause of the recession. The housing market is showing new life after three years of falling prices and too much supply. But now there are worries that banks
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The race to save two of America's big three carmakers is entering a new and intense period. In March, the government ordered Chrysler to cut costs and form an alliance with Italian carmaker Fiat by A
AS IT IS 2013-06-07 Presence of Female Peacekeepers in Lebanon Continues to Grow From VOA Learning English, this is As It Is. Im Caty Weaver. Women are half the worlds population. But they can face barriers to economic independence and security. Toda
THE MAKING OF A NATION - AMERICAN HISTORY: The Great Recession and the 2008 Election STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week, our series brings us to the events of two thou
By Barry Wood Washington 19 July 2007 Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to a Senate committeeThursday about conditions in the U.S. housing market. VOA's Barry Wood reports the chairman of America's central bank faced tough questioning
U.S. lawmakers challenged former top executives of major government-backed mortgage finance companies to explain why they took on billions of dollars in risky loans. Questioning of the former heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac came as a House of Re
U.S. President Barack Obama has announced new help for small business owners who have been hard hit by the economic downturn. He is taking steps to ease the credit shortage that is prompting many small businesses to cut back operations or close thei
Global recognition including the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom has not kept Muhammad Yunus from his main goal - getting people out of poverty with the help of small loan-interest loans. The Nobel Laureate announced that his
Pakistan's Bonded Laborers Trapped in Cycle of Debt 巴基斯坦契约劳工陷入债务圈套 ISLAMABAD In Pakistan today, more than 2 million people, including children, work as bonded laborers, a system the United Nations describes as modern-day s
Hi. This week, I got the chance to sit down with some impressive students at Lorain County Community College in Ohio. One of them was a woman named Andrea Ashley. Two years ago, Andrea lost her job as an HR analyst. Today, shes getting certified in t
With congressional hearings set Thursday and Friday of this week in advance of a vote on lending money to the beleaguered U.S. auto industry, General Motors says it needs money almost immediately. VOA's Barry Wood has more on the controversy over go
今天我们要学的词是hard-pressed。 Be hard-pressed to do something, 意思是面临很大的困难。 Without additional loans, the company will be hard-pressed not to go bankrupt, 如果没有额外的贷款,这家公司恐怕很难不破产
今天我们要学的词是phase out。 Phase out, 是逐步结束的意思。世界上最年轻的国家南苏丹独立后宣布,学校教育将逐步淘汰阿拉伯语,改用英语教学。 The government of South Sudan announced it will phase