And the economy has showed some signs it was on the 1) mend. New 2) claims for 3) unemployment benefits dropped 4) unexpectedly last week although they do remain at high levels, and 5) analysts expect

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White House: Consumer Spending Will Decline Unless Congress Averts Fiscal A new poll shows a whopping 247 million shoppers visited stores and websites over the Thanksgiving weekend. Black Friday - the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season -

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[翻译]Economics Report - US Congress Avoids Fiscal Cliff, Postpones Budget Decision 经济报道 - 美国国会避免了财政悬崖 并推迟了预算决策 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report in Special English. 这里是美国之

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Economics Report - EU Officials Urge Tighter Fiscal Rules for Euro Countries This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Stock prices around the world rose and fell this week on news of efforts to help countries using the euro. The European Cen

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Fiscal Cliff Could Have Greatest Impact on Poor, Unemployed At a Los Angeles center, Catholic Charities provides food and other assistance to the poor, unemployed, and homeless. A homeless man, John Wood, is sitting with his belongs in a grocery cart

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Obama Appeals to Public About 'Fiscal Cliff' Obama took his campaign to a toy factory near Philadelphia on Friday, asking middle-class workers and business leaders to press Republican lawmakers to pass his tax plan. And if we could just get a few Hou

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Europe Warily Watches US 'Fiscal Cliff' Talks But it has been a turbulent 12 months for Europe - and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ended the year on a somber note, warning that the coming year will be even more difficult. The reforms that we've int

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'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Highlights Messy US Democracy in Action Many visitors to the U.S. Capitol, like David Stark from the state of nearby Maryland, come to admire this monument to democracy but express frustration with the political polarization insid

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Washington Week: Focus on Economic, Fiscal Matters President Obama wants to shrink the deficit and promote economic growth. For years, an argument in Washington has raged between reducing our deficits at all costs, and making the investments we need

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During a news conference moments after the House passed a Senate-backed bill to prevent the fiscal cliff, Obama spoke about the country's deficit problem. I think we will recognise this law is just one step in the broader effort to strengthen our eco

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Business this week. 一周商业要闻 The American economy grew at an annualised rate of 1.7% in the three months to June, compared with 1.1% in the previous quarter. 今年三至六月,美国经济年增长率达到1.7%,而上一季度增长率仅

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Finance and Economics;Investing in Ethiopia; Frontier mentality; 财经;投资埃塞俄比亚; 前沿思维; A new fund attests to the country's allureand to the value of connections; 新投资,国家吸引力与关系网价值的有力证明;

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China's economy will grow at 6.7% this year, but edge down to 6.4% and 6.1% in 2017 and 2018, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in its global economic outlook. 总部位于巴黎的经济合作与发展组

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua)-- U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said on Tuesday that he will move to a backup option for the fiscal woes due in January while remained hopeful a broader deal can be reached with the President Barack Obama. Boehner spoke

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Departments can make efficiency improvements up to a point, but eventually ever-smaller budgets make it difficult to provide core services. 部门可以将效率提高到一个点,但最终规模较小的预算难以提供核心服务。 From priso

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Housing 住房 Nimble opposition 灵活的反对 A new study confirms suspicions about what drives planning decisions 一项新的研究证实了对规划决定的推动力的质疑 ON A road called Glyders, in Benfleet, east of London, it looks as t

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TOKYO, May 27 (Xinhua) -- Japan's transport ministry said Friday that 7 million more vehicles with Takata-made air bags will be recalled within Japan, bringing the total number of vehicles called back as a result of the Takata air bag defect in Japan

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled his 2014 budget Wednesday, aiming to rein in the deficit by raising taxes on the affluent and curbing government spending on programs including Social Security and Medicare. The bl

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

NAIROBI, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Thursday formally approved Afghanistan's membership at its 10th ministerial conference in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Afghanistan has become the 164th WTO member and the 36th least de

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Finance and economics 财经商业 Civil servants and austerity 公务员与财政紧缩 The times they aren't a-changin 不曾变革的时代 Civil-service payrolls have held up surprisingly well 一直以来,公务员的薪酬都出奇地好 AFTE

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