So what that is is evidence that people are being hired using the stimulus money, but what it leaves out is that someone is gonna have to pay the taxes to pay for that spending. So if you think that the extra spending now pay is creating jobs now, th

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2010年(一)月

The expressions in this weeks episode are used when people get really focused on things or need to continuously work at something. Its like these people are doing it all the time, and nothing else! These expressions are often used to exaggerate that

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Things are bad for Democrats. All signs are pointing to huge Republican gains across the board, from coast to coast, at all levels of government. The poll shows that Republicans are leading on just about every measurement, from handling the economy t

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Hi, Im Carl Azuz, you've landed on CNN student news. During a speech yesterday, President Obama offered some ideas on how to create new jobs and help out the countrys economy. Offering tax breaks to small businesses, expanding some of the governments

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. It may be a day closer to the fiscal cliff, but lawmakers don't appear to be making any steps away from it. They continue to stand their ground. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says raising the age f

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She Will Be Loved Maroon5 Beauty queen of only eighteen 只有18岁的女王般的美丽女孩 She had some trouble with herself 她现在遇到了一些麻烦 He was always there to help her 他总是在那里帮助她 She always belonged to someone

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Matt Wertz,美国的创作歌手,大学里学的却是工业设计专业,不过一直很喜欢唱歌,清爽可爱的外形+清新明快的嗓音,Matt的歌曲听着就叫人觉得舒服悠闲。 Everything Will Be Alright Matt Wertz There's

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1. President Barack Obama has outlined his ideas on ways to cut national spending. The president wants to cut four trillion dollars over a dozen years, through cuts in the growth of Medicare spending, cuts in defense and an end to some tax loopholes,

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. White House officials have begun talks with Congress on a war spending bill in place of the one President Bush vetoed on Tuesday. President Bush speaking at the White House after he vetoed a $124 billion s

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Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos continues emergency talks with Greek party leaders Monday on more spending cuts, with his finance minister warning that the country is on a knife edge (brink of disaster). The government and parliament must agree

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Father was a hardworking man who delivered bread as a living to support his wife and three children. He spent all his evenings after work attending classes, hoping to improve himself so that he could one day find a better paying job. Except for Sunda

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美国国会达成预算协议 WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Chief budget negotiators in the U.S. Congress said Tuesday that they have struck a two-year deal to avoid a government shutdown on Jan. 15. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray a

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Health-care reform 医疗改革 Looking to Uncle Sam 瞧瞧山姆大叔 As lawmakers squabble, spending on health care continues to grow 由于立法议员争执不下,医疗保健支出继续增加 Jul 30th 2011 | NEW YORK | from the print edition

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Barack Obama and the Republicans 奥巴马与共和党 A beatable president 能被击败的总统 But only if a Republican candidate starts laying out a sensible plan for the American economy 条件是共和党候选人开始为美国经济开出良方

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JUDY WOODRUFF:Now: what's behind the continuing rise in health care spending and why the rate of growth has slowed. Ray Suarez has the story. RAY SUAREZ:For the third consecutive year, health care spending in the U.S. grew by just under 4 percent. Go

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Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all lifes greatest tests alone. -Agnes Macphail 不要完全依赖另一个人,无论他/她有多么珍贵。生活中最大的考验,我们只能独自经历。加拿大首位

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One day after President Barack Obama urged the U.S. Congress to intensify efforts to avert a debt crisis, the Senate appears to be doing just that. A recess has been canceled, and the president has been invited to Capitol Hill for direct talks with l

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U.S. retail sales grew more slowly in October, giving a moderate boost to the consumer spending segment that drives most U.S. economic activity. Tuesday's report from the Commerce Department says the gain was one-half of a percent in October, which i

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5 Things We Should Spend More Money On, And 5 Things We Should Not Imagine that you are sitting on the front porch of your house sipping lemonade with your family on a warm summers night. You sit back and reminisce with them about how you bought the

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U.S. President Barack Obama and key congressional leaders are meeting Friday in their first face-to-face effort to resolve crucial government financial issues before the end of the year. As the talks started, President Obama said he and the lawmakers

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