US Tariffs Raise Fears of Trade War with American Allies The United States says it will require tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe, Mexico and Canada. 美国表示将对从欧洲、墨西哥和加拿大进口的钢铁和铝材征收关税

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(六)月

Im Hilarie Barsky for Good Morning America, now my guest is Cindy Crawford. Happy Pre-Mothers Day. oh, thank you, yeah, great. Do your kids do anything special? Er, Im sure I will be getting some object made out of clay. Yeah, I actually, I saw them

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Scrap-Metal Separation May Become Cheaper 新技术降低废金属分离成本 According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States throws 14.8 million tons of scrap metal into landfills every year. One of the main reasons is the diffi

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A refugee camp built by students and volunteers spreads over Southern Methodist University's expanse of green lawns and live oaks. The affordable shelters are designed to be used by the poor as well as survivors of war and natural disasters. 从4月1

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By Jeff Swicord Washington 18 May 2007 Entrance to mine rescue chamber It is being called revolutionary in the field of mine safety. A West Virginia company has unveiled a new piece of technology that the company says could prevent most deaths from m

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Pakistani security officials have disclosed new details about Saturday's hotel bombing and released a video showing the attack. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad, where the interior ministry said the death toll has reached 53 people, inclu

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India has put on hold a multi-billion dollar expansion of an aluminum plant by a British-based company. The government said it based its decision on environmental concerns. The government will also decide next week on the fate of a proposed steel pla

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尼日利亚开创平民垃圾回收模式 Adeyemi Okuwoga is on the hunt for trash.Neighbors bring out bags of plastic and aluminum waste.He weighs them and carts them off, free of charge. 阿德耶米奥库沃加正在寻找垃圾。邻居拿出成袋

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 03 October 2007 October 4th marks 50 years since the former Soviet Union hurled humanity's first object into Earth orbit. It was a small round device known as Sputnik -- Russian for satellite -- with four antennas and a trans

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: There's some newly discovered artworks up for auction this weekend in Massachusetts. They're by Andy Warhol, who died more than three decades ago. We don't know how much the works are worth until they sell, but we do know their val

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right. European, Canadian and Mexican officials are promising to retaliate in response to steel and aluminum tariffs that the Trump administration imposed today. These tariffs were first announced by the president in early Mar

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NOEL KING, HOST: Germany has this reputation as a pioneer of clean energy. Angela Merkel was called the climate chancellor when she decided to ditch nuclear power. But the reality in Germany is a lot dirtier. The country is the biggest miner of brown

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's time for quarterly earnings reports at many companies. And that gives us a chance to compare President Trump's rhetoric on trade with the reality that American manufacturers are facing. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports. JIM ZARROLI,

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Today's show starts with a pair of significant cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. The first involves part of a federal law that concerned immigrants to the U.S. It said that people who came to the country legally but who were not American citi

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By Jeff Swicord Cleveland, Ohio 18 March 2008 The subprime mortgage crisis has devastated property values and the quality of life in cities across the United States. In this, the second part of a three part series, VOA's Jeff Swicord takes a look at

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By Suzanne Chislett London 08 August 2007 Tribal villagers from the eastern state of Orissa in India claim the planned expansion of a mine and mineral refinery in their region threatens their way of life. So they sent representatives to London to as

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By Anya Ardayeva Moscow 09 July 2007 The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says 13 journalists have been murdered because of their reporting since Russian President Vladimir Putin assumed power in the year 2000. The list, issued in Apri

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Trump 'supportive' of improved gun checks Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Zhao Ying Coming up: -- Donald Trump adds cautious support to improved background checks for gun buyers.

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美国朝鲜五月份元首将历史会见 Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Suyi Coming up: --Trump agrees to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May --China says it firmly op

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Building a Better Mirror for Telescopes 为望远镜打造更优质镜面 To study the heavens, it's all about the photons. We in astronomy are always greedy. We want every photon we can collect. Drew Phillips, astronomer at University of California

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