From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The man accused of the deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust Museum in June has died. 89-year-old James von Brunn died today at the federal prison in North Carolina. The self-declared white supremac

发表于:2018-12-24 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台1月

Section B The Trashman Saturday, April 7 Steve and I hauled trash for four solid hours continuously, except for about five minutes when we stopped to talk. My shoulder hurt wickedly each time I put an

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Obituary;Wynne Godley; 讣告;韦恩戈德利; Wynne Godley, British economist, died on May 13th, aged 83; 英国经济学家韦恩戈德利于五月十三日辞世,终年83岁; A certain ambiguity marked Wynne Godley. Was he at heart an aesthete,

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Finance and Economics;Olympionomics;The dismal dash;Which economist will win themedal-prediction gold? 财经;奥运经济学;令人沮丧的百米冲刺;哪位经济学家能够成为奖牌预测大赛的冠军呢? Athletic prowess is not

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The Russell Group is a university union that produces the most Nobel Prize winners around the word. 罗素集团是全世界产生诺贝尔奖得主最多的大学联盟。 So far, there are some 300 Nobel Prize winners from the Group, among which 18

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Central Bank Chief Says Job Market Is Improving 美央行行长表示就业市场正在改善 The head of the United States central bank says she expects the U.S. job market to continue to improve. Janet Yellen says the inflation rate should rise clo

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为实现自己的留学之梦,无数学生默默地在GRE考试中付出自己辛勤的汗水。所有GRE高分故事背后都有值得我们学习的GRE备考经验。相信这样的一个个GRE高分故事能够在你备考GRE考试的过程中送

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WASHINGTON, June 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. fixed mortgage rates rose for the first time in six weeks after hitting a seven-month low amid a slowdown in the housing recovery, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) edg

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Indias parliament has approved a long-awaited overhaul of the countrys fragmented tax system to create a genuine single market in one of the most significant reforms to the Indian economy since liberalisation began 25 years ago. 印度国会已批准对

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Giant Bank of America is the latest financial firm to announce major job cuts. The Charlotte-based bank which is in the process of merging with Merrill Lynch, said today it plans to cut 30, 000 to 35, 000 jobs over the next three years. Tony Plath i

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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor held her ground through another day of intense questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. President Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice David Souter refused to be drawn out on the abort

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President Barack Obama said today with an estimated 3.6 million people losing their jobs since the start of the current recession, there is no time to waste in getting the economic stimulus plan through Congress. President's remarks coming as Senate

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After years of big spending, Americans continue to pull back. Consumer expenditures fell for a sixth straight month that's according to the Commerce Department. NPR's Frank Langfitt reports. Consumer spending was down 1% in December. Amid all the re

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President Obama wants Congress to finish work on healthcare legislation. Hes calling on lawmakers to bring bills to the floor and vote on them. Republicans hate the bills and many want to scrap the existing legislation. And Mr. Obama says thats a fat

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Parts of the Southern U.S. are getting their first snow in years, and the National Weather Service's Michael Eckert says the storm has a wide reach. When we get over into Georgia, towards Savannah, and

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States is already one year into a recession. That was the news this week from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The downturn is the longest since a recession that began in nineteen

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Development Report - Questioning a Popular Approach to Lasting Development Economists at M.I.T.s Jameel Poverty Action Lab have found no evidence that paying for a product in the developing world changes how people use it. Transcript of radio broadc

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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JEFFREY BROWN:2012 ended with another month of steady, but unspectacular job growth. That was the main takeaway from today's numbers out of the Labor Department. The weeks of will they or won't they go over the fiscal cliff in Washington had raised f

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Milton Friedman Saw Free Markets as a Tool for 'Human Freedom'By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, December 01, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Milton Friedman

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