This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, we look back at a few of the year's biggest economic stories. A house for sale in September in New York In recent years, home building and

发表于:2018-11-27 / 阅读(400) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年慢速英语(十二)月

President Obama is taking aim at an Arizona immigration bill that requires police to question people suspected of being in the country illegally. At a naturalization ceremony in Washington, D.C. today, Mr. Obama seized on the controversial state meas

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Insider Trading Rita: I just got a hot tip from my brother to buy stock in McQ Corp. Rick: Your brother works for McQ Corp., doesnt he? Rita: Yeah, hes a director in the company, so he should know if something big is brewing. Rick: If hes a director

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Buffett's Gift of Wealth Will Aid Efforts to Cure DiseasesBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 16:00:00 UTC This is Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Development Rep

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IN THE NEWS - Buffett's Gift: Starting a New Page in the History of Giving to CharityBy Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:00:00 UTC I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English

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I recently received an e-mail from the motivational speaker and real estate investor Paul LeJoy. He's been wildly successful in real estate sales and has mentored and worked with dozens of entrepreneurs. 最近我收到一封来自励志演说家兼房

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恐怖袭击可能会削弱投资者信心 Terror Attack Could Weaken Investor Confidence Elaine Johanson New York 12 Sep 2001 20:45 UTC Wall Street remains 1)shrouded in uncertainty, one day after th

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carl Kasell. The Federal Reserve is moving to calm jitters in the financial markets amid a credit crunch that's already claimed one of the biggest Wall Street firms. NPR's Scott Horsley reports. Bear Stearns agreed o

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BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- Securities regulators on Friday confirmed that the State Council, or China's cabinet, has approved a plan to expand pilot zones for the new third board, a new over-the-counter (OTC) equity market, to shore up emerging busi

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BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese equities ended 5 percent lower Wednesday after rebounding from plummeting more than 7 percent in the afternoon trade, as investors cashed in on earlier gains during the past five trading days. The benchmark Shangh

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BEIJING, May 21 (Xinhua) -- China's recent move to give private capital equal treatment in investing in the country's railway projects is expected to inject new vitality into the long-monopolized railway sector amid concerns of an economic slowdown.

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1. Legendary investor Warren Buffett is warning shareholders of his Berkshire Hathaway that economic turmoil is likely to continue. Turmoil have helped bring a 62% drop in profits at the company last year. 2. President Barack Obama used his weekly m

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So with this realization in mind, I decided to embrace all of the different versions of myself 带着这种认识,我决定接受一个截然不同的自己, even allow myself to reinvent myself at times. 甚至允许自己以全新的面貌出现。

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Mr Gordon is right that the second industrial revolution involved never-to-be-repeated changes. 正如戈登所言,第二次工业革命带来的改变无法复制。 But that does not mean that driverless cars count for nothing. 但这并不意味着

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Human quirks also play a role. 人类的怪癖也起到一定的作用。 Robert Shiller, who helped create the subfield now known as behavioural finance (and won a Nobel prize), reckons that ideas about markets spread like an epidemic. 曾为如今以

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After months of partisan gridlock, both houses of the U.S. Congress have approved a bill to raise the federal borrowing limit and cut government spending. Tuesdays 74 - 26 Senate vote came one day after the bill passed in the House of Representatives

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Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce group founded by Jack Ma, delivered its fastest pace of quarterly sales growth since its 2014 flotation as it defied the wider slowdown in the Chinese economy and fears about its business model. 马云创立的中国电商

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SHANGHAI, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Funds raised through initial public offerings (IPOs) on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges is expected to reach 200 to 250 billion yuan (39.3 billion U.S. dollars) this year, top auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Brent Schlender, Fortune's well-sourced technology reporter, knew Jobs and was familiar with his thinking, 《财富》杂志消息灵通的科技记者布伦特施伦德认识乔布斯并且熟悉他的想法, and in March he came out with a story

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FOR the chief executives of Deutsche Boerse (DB) and NYSE Euronext, this weeks hobnobbing in Davos was strictly business. A $9.5 billion plan to unite the two exchanges was derailed in early December when European Commission staff revealed they were

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