The latest jobs report reveals an unexpected decline in new unemployment claims last week, but economist Hugh Johnson says the better measure on labor trends, the four-week average, tells a different story. The truth is that the jobless claims have b

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Lesson Thirteen Section One: News in Brief Tapescript 1. A special committee of twelve senators today began the impeachment trial of Federal J udge Harry Claiborne. It's the first such proceeding in f

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IN THE NEWS - Supreme Court Hearings on Guantanamo Prisoners By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Saturday, April 24, 2004 This is Bob Doughty with In the News, in VOA Special English. The United States Supreme

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BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Senior Chinese leader Zhou Yongkang met Friday with visiting Austrian Federal Minister of Justice Beatrix Karl and pledged to enhance cooperation between the two nations on law enforcement. Zhou, a member of the Standing

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新任美联储主席首次面对记者 WASHINGTON The new head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, is busy trying to bolster the economy, cut unemployment and watch out for inflation. On Wednesday she will face reporters for the first time as

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The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner, says he stands ready to cut a budget deal with President Barack Obama - so long as no taxes are raised, leaving deep spending cuts as the sole vehicle to trim Americas massive $1.5-trill

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白宫敦促延长失业救济金 WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- The White House on Wednesday urged lawmakers to extend unemployment benefits for millions of unemployed Americans, its latest pitch to ratchet up pressure for Congress to pass legislati

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Chinese language will be included in the Russian Unified State Exam by 2020 as a foreign language subject, said the director of the Federal Service for the Supervision of Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor), a federal executive body overseeing educa

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WASHINGTON, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Top policymakers of the U.S. Federal Reserve believed that risks to U.S. economic growth have increased, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday. Participants at the June FOMC (Federal Open Market Commi

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今天我们要学的词是boost。 Boost, 是推动的意思。增加信心可以说, a boost for ones' confidence. 提高士气可以说, a boost to morale. 美国联邦储备委员会星期二决定将短期利率下调半个百分点,推动了金

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Clearly, people didn't want us to talk about death, 显而易见,人们并不希望我们和他们谈论死亡, or, we thought that. 或者,我们自己如此认为。 So with loads of funding from the Federal Government 所以,在联邦政府和

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill allocating 600 million dollars to help enhance border security in the southwestern states bordering Mexico. Obama signed the bill in the Oval Office in the presence o

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JUDY WOODRUFF: A government worker union today alleged the cyber-attack on U.S. employee records was far worse than the Obama administration initially indicated. In a letter to the Office of Personnel Management, the president of the American Federal

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KATSINA, Nigeria May 31 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 secondary school teachers are reported to have died of food poisoning, and several others hospitalized in northern Nigeria's Katsina State, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Tuesday. The incident o

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奥巴马敦促延长失业救济金 WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- President Barack Obama on Saturday urged lawmakers to extend unemployment benefits for millions of unemployed Americans before Christmas to help low- income families and bolster job

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金融英语辅导:美国的银行业系统(双语) The Commercial Banking System Today in the United States Several of the characteristics of American banking just discussed carry over into todays commercial banking system. Prominent among these is

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British Petroleum has announced it has reached a multi-billion-dollar agreement with fishermen and other plaintiffs who sued over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill off the U.S. coast. BP says the $7.8 billion deal represents a partial settlement in t

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Explanation: The United States would be a very different country if it did not have the U.S. Constitution, because it does three very important things. First, it sets up (or organizes) the government, just like you would organize any organization or

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本期内容: AmericasSamp;P500stockmarketindexendedthefirstquarterslightlyhigherthanitwasattheturnoftheyearanoutcomethatseemedunlikelyafteraturbulentstartto2016.SharepriceswerehelpedoverthelinebydoveishremarksfromJanetYellen,headoftheFederalReserv

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OAKSTERDAM university, a self-proclaimed cannabis college in Oakland, California, has been called everything from the Princeton of Pot to the Harvard of Hemp. Its founder, Richard Lee, has become the public face of the movement to legitimise marijuan

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