Venezuelan Beauty Contestants Represent Other Countries The 67th Miss Universe beauty pageant will take place December 16 in Bangkok, Thailand. 第67届环球小姐选美比赛将于12月16日在泰国曼谷举行。 The competition will include youn

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(376) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(十一)月

This January 11th, we're starting with the report on Venezuela. The nation is in an economic tailspin. It's located in South America. It's home to around 31 million people. And even though its president, Nicolas Maduro, increased Venezuela's minimum

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(84) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年1月

The local share market has closed flat on the back of weakness in financial stocks, with investors cautious ahead of key US jobs data due out tonight. The All Ordinaries edged up just one point and the ASX 200 finished unchanged. The big four banks a

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2010年

And China's economic expansion slows slightly during the third quarter of the year. China's economy grew by 9.1 per cent in the three months to the end of September. Now that's down from 9.5 per cent in the previous quarter. The government's measures

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And Eurozone leaders are meeting in Brussels tonight to come up with a strategy to confront Europe's worsening debt crisis. But there's already been a setback with one of the scheduled meetings cancelled. The finance ministers were going to thrash ou

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A Senate inquiry has recommended a range of reforms to boost competition in the banking sector. The inquiry was launched in the wake of the financial downturn amid public anger that major banks were raising interest rates beyond the official level. T

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India's Central bank has made its first significant move to reverse stimulus measures taken in the wake of the global financial crisis by asking banks to set aside larger cash reserves. The step is aimed at tackling rising inflation. The Central Bank

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Script Petrol, up. Eating out, up. School fees, up. Everyone in Britain seems to be talking about price rises, but why then is inflation still so low? Professor Brown gave the seemingly difficult economic issue a simply answer: It is the low-priced M

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Good morning. The US Federal Reserve has kicked off its two-day meeting where theyll decide whether to raise US interest rates for the first time in seven years. Now, as this meeting gets underway, the US Labor Department released its call Consumer P

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AZUZ: In modern economic terms, inflation occurs when the things and services we buy get more expensive and our money doesn't go as far as it used to. Concerns about inflation are a major reason why the U.S. stock market has been so volatile lately.

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TRANSCRIPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S BROADCAST ON ECONOMIC POLICY FRIDAY 30 JUNE 2000 In a few week's time, Gordon Brown will announce to Parliament and the country the Government's spending plans for the next three years. I can't, of course, reveal t

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Kydland, Prescott Win Nobel Prize in Economics By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, October 15, 2004 This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Edward Prescott

发表于:2019-01-02 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 健康与经济

--Gold, theres a dramatic drop on Friday, and today gold is at its lowest point since March of 2011, whats going on? --Yeah, there seems to be a bit of give-up here in the gold market. The gold had a phenomenon rally last 12 years. Really, but it's s

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(127) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2013年

1. President Bush says he doesn't expect the violence in Iraq to abate anytime soon. He says he expects heavy fighting to continue for the next few months with more American and Iraqi casualties. 2. The head of the UN nuclear agency says he agrees w

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By Delia Robertson A one-day nationwide strike of civil service workers in South Africa has brought education to a standstill and affected many other state agencies. Tens of thousands of civil service

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Official inflation figures are due out today and many are expecting a big jump as everyday items become more expensive. The inflation rate is expected to increase for 1.3 to 1.7% in the June quarter. Economists believe the rising cost of fuel and ris

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China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan now says the government will keep the monetary policy and financial reforms stable and continuous - no matter who becomes the new governor of the People's Bank of China. CRI's Su Yi has more. It does not m

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Let's take a look at some finance news now.And official figures out today are expected to show inflation picked up in the September quarter. Economists are tipping the consumer index rose by 0.8 of a percent over that period. Now that would put the a

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The Australian dollar has hit a fresh six and a half year low as offshore investors sell out on worries about global growth. The dollar fell for * 69.6 US cents, its lowest level since early 2009. It slipped nearly 3% since Monday, the second largest

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At the end of 1947, Jane Wyman told her husband that she wanted a divorce. For a long time, they had been too busy to spend much time together. Still, Ronald Reagan was taken by surprise. He took his daughter Maureen for a ride in the car and tried t

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