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今天我们要学的词是merger。 Merger, 意思是合并。美国第二大移动通讯运营商ATT计划用390亿美元收购T-Mobile. The planned merger will be the largest in 2011, 计划中的收购案将是2011年规模最大的。 ATT promis
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Anxiety(焦虑渴望) is filling the air in Washington D.C., as the clock ticks closer to a federal government shutdown with no budget approval. Lawmakers continued the debate Friday, leaving tourists in the nation's capital wondering whether it will
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With a little more than a month until a deadline to raise the nation's debt limit, President Barack Obama met on Monday with the top U.S. Senate Democratic and Republican leaders to try to narrow differences in long-running talks on reducing governme
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WASHINGTON, July 25 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday approved an amendment to State Department funding bill aimed at pressuring Russia and other countries against giving asylum to Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) surveill
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美国参议院推进失业救济金延长法案 WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted to advance the unemployment benefits extension bill, clearing procedural hurdle for the legislation. In a 60-37 vote, the Democratic-cont
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WHITE HOUSE The Obama administration is welcoming Republican lawmakers decision not to withhold an extension of the nations borrowing limit. Republicans had threatened to allow the United States to default on its obligations if government spending we
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President Barack Obama says Congress can find a bipartisan solution to prevent an August 2 government default. But White House officials are highly critical of Fridays changes in Republican legislation to raise the borrowing limit. White House Press
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U.S. House approves bill to normalize trade relations with Russia WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a bill that would normalize trade relations with Russia for the first time since the end of the Sov
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奥巴马警告共和党勿造新危机 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Republicans to stop political brinkmanship on government funding and debt limit in order to avert self-inflicted wounds to the econ
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1. The Republicans have regained control of the House of Representatives and made significant gains in the US Senate. It was the biggest party turnover in more than 70 years. And likely Speaker of the House John Boehner called it a repudiation of Was
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AS IT IS 2016-06-28 Mass Killings Bring New Demands for Gun Control in America When U.S. Congressional Democrats demanded votes on gun control measures last week, Republican leaders turned off the cameras. The action is strangely similar to what cong
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The U.S. legislation is headed for a final vote in the Senate, which intended to push China to let the yuan appreciate further. The bill called for tariffs on imports from countries with deliberately undervalued currencies. A bipartisan majority that
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Leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have named nine of the 12 members of a committee that will be expected to find up to $1.5 trillion in savings to reduce the nation's deficit. The White House said Wednesday that President Barack
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The interim speaker of Brazil's lower house of Congress Waldir Maranhao says he has reversed a decision to annul the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. The move came after Senate President Renan Calheiros on Monday dismissed Maranhao'
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The White House says it remains confident that congressional leaders can come together and work out a way to raise the U.S. debt ceiling before an August 2 deadline. A top aide to President Obama spoke as Republicans controlling the House of Represen
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The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on a Republican plan to trim government spending and raise the federal borrowing limit. The vote comes days before a deadline to avert a possible default on U.S. debt obligations that Pre
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a spending bill to fund the federal government through September. The last-minute agreement was reached nearly a week ago after intense negotiations between the White House and Congress, slashing $38.5 bil
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