Hello, I am Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta, and here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. In Georgia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has won an agreement on a cease-fire, and Russia is expected to sign a version of that d

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(77) / 评论(0) 分类 商业报道2008年(八)月

Hillary Rodham Clinton 希拉里克林顿 Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, born on October 26, 1947 in Illinois, is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was born to Hugh E. Rodham, who m

发表于:2019-01-29 / 阅读(87) / 评论(0) 分类 走进耶鲁大学

It's there for leverage so that we can lock down performance standards. 这是我们谈下绩效标准的筹码 You don't toss around their right to collective bargaining like a poker chip. 你不能随便拿集体谈判当筹码 If we don't, they wo

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IN THE NEWS - Top Stories of 2004 By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Saturday, January 03, 2004 02 Jan 2004, 22:06 UTC This is Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American news experts at t

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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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Michelle Obama has left her husband way behind in Americas popularity stakes. The First Lady returned to the campaign(竞选活动) trail this week for the first time since 2008 after her approval rating(支持率) rocketed to 65% - twenty po

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. lawmakers in the upper house of Congress on Sunday were attempting to strike a last- minute deal to solve the so-called fiscal cliff, but the two sides have not inked a deal as the nation neared the verge of cliff

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BANGKOK, April 22 (Xinhua) -- A new Thai election will be held in July at the earliest and in September at the latest, according to the Election Commission on Tuesday. It remains to be seen how soon the new nationwide polls will take place in Thailan

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The United States, with the world's-largest economy, now has claimed the dubious distinction of having the industrialized world's highest corporate tax rate. Japan dropped its corporate tax rate slightly on Sunday, to just more than 38 percent. That

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Breaking up the Treasury 财政部分裂 Your money or your life 要钱还是要命? The knives are out for Whitehall's mightiest department 利刃直指白厅最强大的部门 TONY BLAIR once kidnapped a civil servant. It was 2005 and the then pr

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Senator John Kerry to be his next secretary of state as he is trying to usher in a new cabinet for his second term starting in January. Obama made the announcement at the

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1. Republican John Boehner has assumed the gavel as speaker of the House, drawing the curtain on the history-making Nancy Pelosi era. Pelosi, a Democrat, was the first woman to rise to the speaker's post. 2. The man who served as White House press se

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1. A new brush fire has broken out in the hills above Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley suburbs, prompting mandatory evacuations. The new fire began Monday morning, a few miles west of the 3,700-acre brush fire that has been burning since early Sunda

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ALISON STEWART, PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND ANCHOR: For more analysis of the presidential transition, I'm joined now from Santa Barbara, California, by NewsHour weekend special correspondent, Jeff Greenfield. Jeff, so, Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton and Preside

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Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Manchester, protesting amid the Conservative Party's Autumn conference. As CRI's UK Correspondent Tu Yun reports, the demonstration in Manchester is said to be a pre-cursor of a much larger nation-

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Hope youre having a great day, Im Nicole Lapin at the CNN Center in Atlanta. Here is a look at whats happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The House has just approved a massive Wall Street bailout just four days after voting down a version of the rescue plan.

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Opposition research 反对派调查 Digging dirt, digitally 电子版发奸擿伏 How to ensure that dumb things politicians say get a wide audience 怎样保证政客们把持的那些不为人知叫座连连 One of the houses the Clintons bought wh

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Breaking up the Treasury 财政部分裂 Your money or your life 要钱还是要命? The knives are out for Whitehall's mightiest department 利刃直指白厅最强大的部门 TONY BLAIR once kidnapped a civil servant. It was 2005 and the then pr

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U.S. motorists have long had an infatuation with cars and the freedom to travel far and wide on the countrys open highways. But now drivers are getting squeezed by higher prices at the gas pumps. American gas prices are still low compared to those in

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U.S. President Barack Obama and his political opponents in Congress are moving a bit closer to reaching a compromise over contentious year-end financial issues. No deal appears imminent, but officials say the leader of the Republican-controlled House

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