China's one-child policy combined with the preference for sons has skewed the population toward males. New research showing a strong correlation between that sex imbalance and savings rates offers some unexpected insights for financial services firms

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

1. Mitt Romney is defending himself against attacks he was more of corporate raider than a job creator. He has a new TV ad out in South Carolina taking his GOP opponents to task for attacking his capitalist background. 2. President Barack Obama wants

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AS IT IS 2015-09-15 A Story of Refugees Arriving in Greece 难民抵达希腊的故事 The following story is based on a web blog from VOAs Heather Murdock in Greece. The first picture message was sent on social media at 3:51 in the morning. It appea

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Ukrainian Reporter Shot Dead in Kyiv 乌克兰基辅记者被枪杀 Two gunmen shot and killed a leading Ukrainian reporter Thursday. Ukraine's interior ministry reported that Oles Buzina, chief editor of the newspaper Segodnya, was killed near his h

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Now how can we think about health behaviors to think about savings? 我们能将健康相关的行为比作储蓄行为么? Well, think about smoking, for example. Smoking is in some deep sense negative savings. 例如,吸烟这个事情,吸烟可

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲教育篇

This was not an outlook that Bill Gates embraced. 但比尔盖茨不是这么想的。 After he and Paul Allen had completed their BASIC interpreter for the Altair, 他和保罗艾伦完成了阿尔泰电脑的BASIC语言编译器后, Gates was app

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Cleaning and sorting plastic made out of multiple polymers can be relatively expensive, 清理和将多种聚合物制成的塑料进行分类的成本相对昂贵, especially if it is used to make low value products such as packaging. 尤其是这些

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A special report on pensions养老保险特别报道Too much, too young太多,太年轻 Watch your wallets: the baby-boomers are beginning to retire 看住钱包:生育高峰期的一代人正在退休 WHEN MOST LABOUR was agricultural, people ge

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Current plans to raise the retirement age are not bold enough 目前提高退休年龄的计划不够大胆 PUT aside the cruise brochures and let the garden retain that natural look for a few more years. Demography and declining investment returns a

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Saving More for RetirementBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, March 17, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. One of the most important questions a work

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Saving for Retirement, Part 2By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, March 24, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many workers depend on plans offered by

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Chinese women's financial power is growing with nearly 60 percent controlling and managing the family finances, a report said. 一项报告显示,我国女性的财政权越来越大,近6成女性掌管着家庭的财政大权。 2016 Women Finan

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Key Sentences(重点句子) 515.Can I speak to the head of the household? 我可以跟户主讲话吗? 516.And we are running a special offfer on the books now.现在我们这些书有个特价优惠。 517.I would like to tell you more a

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The turning of the calendar is both arbitrary and powerful. Each day is just another day, but when the year resets we feel like the slate is cleaned and we can begin anew. 日历牌的翻页既随意又意义重大。日子一天天地过去,但新的

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to honor a cheque 兑付 to dishonor a cheque 拒付 to suspend payment 止付 cheque,check 支票 cheque book 支票本 order cheque 记名支票 bearer cheque 不记名支票 crossed cheque 横线支票 blank cheque 空白支票 rubber cheque 空头支

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The rates of new lung cancer cases in the United States dropped among men in 35 states and among women in six states between 1999 and 2008, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control an

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Please tell me how much you want to change. 请告诉我你要换多少。 How much of the remittance do you want to convert into Japanese yen? 你要把多少汇款换成日圆? What kind of currency do you want? 要哪种货币? What's it you w

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The World Bank is set to make net savings that are half the size of a much-touted $400m target as administrative costs rise on a surge in lending, despite a contentious reorganisation pushed through by Jim Yong Kim, its president. 尽管世界银行(

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(1),There''s a service charge for the checking account but no charge for the savings。 1.What kind of account did you have in your mind? 你想开哪种帐户? 2.Do you like to open a current account? 你想开一个活期存款帐户吗? 3.A

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If job stress is wearing you down and you want more leisure time, but you can't -- or don't want to -- quit altogether, it can be easy to feel stuck. But there's an alternative to consider: a voluntary demotion. Plenty of professionals dream of scali

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