THE MAKING OF A NATION - Election of 1888: Voters Cared Most About Import Taxes By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, November 03, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Spec

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(63) / 评论(0) 分类 The Making of a Nation

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. It has been one year since President Obama signed the economic recovery bill aimed at pulling the country out of recession. The new bill promised jobs -- including many in the nuclear energy industry.

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As he begins his second year in office, President Barack Obama is renewing his effort to reach out to opposition Republicans, despite the fact that 2010 is a congressional election year in the United States. After his election in 2008, Mr. Obama prom

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Glad you to start your new week with CNN student news, my name is Carr Azuz, we are going to start today at the top of the U.S Central Intelligence Agency. That organization, CIA will be getting a new director, because the previous one resigned. On F

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IN THE NEWS - Fight Over Spending Is Just Beginning in Washington This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. A week ago, the United States government was preparing to suspend some of its operations for lack of a budget. But late last Friday, negotia

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FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Faith Lapidus. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember. This week on our program, we look at the new Congress in Washington. (MUSIC) FAITH LAPIDUS: The one hundred twelfth Congress opened l

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1.The Senate cleared the way Tuesday for Chuck Hagel to be the country's next Defense Secretary. Hagel's fellow republicans at previous argue that his record on Israel, Iran and nuclear weapons disqualified him with the join. 2.President Barack Obama

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AS IT IS 2016-10-13 Trump's Numbers Falling After Video Fallout 侮辱女性视频导致特朗普支持率下降 Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump says that he is probably better off without the support of some members of his party.

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AS IT IS 2016-03-05 Republicans Trade Insults at Latest Debate Candidates traded insults, yelling, screaming, interrupting and mean talk at the latest Republican Party debate. The debate, on Thursday evening in Detroit, was filled with yelling and pe

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U.S. President Barack Obama appears to be at a political turning point as he prepares to deliver the annual State of the Union Address on Wednesday before a Joint Session of Congress and a national television audience. The recent Republican victory i

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Some Haitians trying to rebuild their shattered communities are turning to their faith. Many Haitians now worship in the open air after their churches were badly damaged or destroyed by a devastating earthquake nearly three weeks ago. In one Port-au-

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Weekly Address: President Obama Calls on Senate Republicans to Allow a Vote to Protect Medicare Reimbursements 每周电视讲话:奥巴马总统号召参议院共和党人同意就保护医疗保险补偿举行投票 WASHINGTON In this weeks addre

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JUDY WOODRUFF:Negotiators in Washington signaled publicly today that there had been little progress in reaching a deal to avert the fiscal cliff with 19 days to go until a year-end deadline. REP. JOHN BOEHNER, R-Ohio: I remain the most optimistic per

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RAY SUAREZ:With just a week left before automatic spending cuts are set to begin, the Obama administration stepped up pressure on Republicans in Congress today. The latest warnings came over the potential impact that furloughs would have on air trave

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今天我们要学的词是breeze。 Breeze, 做为名词,指轻而易举的事情。 Beating the unknown team wasn't a breeze as we thought it would be, 打赢这支名不见经传的队伍远没有我们原本想象的那么简单。 The new webs

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sleaze gridlock 在竞选过程中,候选人进行互相攻击似乎是常事,只是在手法上有所不同而已。今天我们先要给大家介绍一个和候选人互相攻击有关的常用词

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday went back to Washington from his two-week getaway in Hawaii, facing a new Republican-controlled Congress(国会) and plenty of headaches. Obama's plane touched down in Andrews Airf

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Concluding a three-day bus tour of key midwestern states, President Barack Obama said he will propose that a bipartisan congressional committee find more than $1.5 trillion in additional spending cuts, a level set in the recent debt and deficit compr

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After an-hour closed-door meeting with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders at the White House, US President Barack Obama re-iterated that the all-across spending cuts will hurt the economy and the people. At a time when our businesses have fi

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GWEN IFILL: Now we're going to get a longer view of the president's challenge to Congress tonight. Joining us are Beverly Gage, professor of history at Yale University, and NewsHour regular, presidential historian Michael Beschloss. Michael, did it s

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