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57 经济萧条导致预算盈余骤减 IN THE NEWS - September 1, 2001: Federal Budget/Social SecurityBy Paul Thompson (start at 1’06”)This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has introduced a bill that would chop a half trillion dollars out of the federal budget. And although Paul was trained as an ophthalmologist, his axe doesn't show any mercy to science. For example, Paul would
Republican critics are criticizing President Obama's 2013 budget plan which seeks four trillion dollars in deficit reduction in the next decade. It calls for government spending cuts which the GOP supports but it also seeks an end to tax breaks for t
1. The big budget battle starts on the Hill today. President Obamas budget chief will testify before a House committee today about the administration's nearly four-trillion-dollar spending plan. Republicans say proposed cuts aren't deep enough. 2.I
1. Experts are looking for clues in the debris to determine just how many tornadoes hit the Dallas-Fort Worth region yesterday. The storms damaged hundreds of homes, but there are no reports of fatalities. One tornado may have reached 165 miles an ho
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Bush holds a laptop computer showing the electronic version of his 2009 budget This week, President Bush sent Congress the final budget of his presidency. The spending plan for two thousand
AS IT IS 2015-09-19 Brazil Announces Spending Cuts, New Taxes 巴西宣布削减开支和开征新税 President Dilma Rouseff speaks about proposed budget cuts in Brasilia. The government is seeking to reduce a deficit in the 2016 budget. The governm
US Student on 'Budget' Tour Held in N. Korea An American student has been arrested in North Korea. The arrest is the latest in a series of arrests of U.S. citizens. Analysts say North Korea uses the citizens as bargaining chips. The student is Otto F
Emergency funding 据《华盛顿邮报》报道,五角大楼和国会消息人士透露,美国总统布什准备再向国会申请拨款700亿美元,用于在伊拉克和阿富汗境内的军事行动。如果这项申请通过的话,美国自
THE Republican majority in the House of Representatives called its budget proposal The path to prosperity: A blueprint for American renewal. Whether it would live up to that billing we will never know, as Democratic opposition in the Senate will prev
The United States has, for many diseases, 事实上,美国在很多疾病上, actually a quality which is below the average 的保健质量是低于OECD平均水平的。 Now, if the American healthcare system would focus a lot more on measuring qu
Lexington 莱克星顿 Fun on a budget 预算趣录 Congress is incapable of restraining spending. It should let the president try 国会无力控制开支,也许该放手让总统一试 AT THE end of Barack Obama's budget, which was published on F
MARGARET WARNER:The plan to triple college tuition fees is part of a broad budget rebalancing program now being put in place by Britain's Conservative prime minister, David Cameron, and his coalition partner, the Liberal Democrats. The measure passed
GWEN IFILL: There's been a lot of talk about the politics behind the bipartisan budget agreement. We take a closer look now at the devil in those details. Senate Democrats were happy today to tout the budget deal headed to the president's desk. Budge
The government is going to change the repayment rate for student loans. At the moment, when graduates earn a minimum of $19,084 a year (that is $367 a week), they have to start repaying the loan at a rate of 10% of their pay until the full loan is pa
The Minister of Education, Hekia Parata, today announced changes which will affect teachers. She said that class sizes for Years 2 to 10 will average 27 students. This means that some classes will be slightly bigger while others will be slightly smal
今天我们要学的词是ample。 Ample, 是充足的意思。 The price of crude oil fell amid ample supply, 原油供给充足,造成价格下跌。 There is ample evidence that she is better qualified for the position than the other candidates
What's the minimum amount you could earn to have a reasonable standard of living? A recent report in the UK has come up with some figures. 你觉得要有一个合理的生活水平,你最少挣多少钱?英国最近的一次报告提供了一些数据。 How much do you think is sugg
Portugal has become the third European economy, after Greece and Ireland, to request a bailout from the European Commission. Now there are fears that Spain could be next. It was the moment the Portuguese(葡萄牙) people - and European investors - h