It's also been a big week for more attempted airline buyouts. Air France-KLM, the result of a 2004 merger between two French and Dutch airlines into Europe's biggest airline, has begun talks to buy Alitalia, which is half owned by the Italian govern

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The Federal Reserve's interest rate setting arm has wrapped up a two-day meeting in Washington, putting in place another big cut in interest rates as it seeks to boost the lagging economy. Fed policymakers by unanimous vote opted to cut short-term r

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It's all thanks to new technology that a student in Texas is doing something he thought might be impossible: be in class with his friends. And how he's doing it is really gonna amaze you. That story's coming up. I'm Carl Azuz. A new week of CNN Stude

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1. In Mississippi, they are cleaning up after a tornado that killed ten people. Now, emergency officials are surveying the damage with the area likely eligible for federal aid. Severe weather also rolled through other parts of the Southeast, causing

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1. In Mississippi, they are cleaning up after a tornado that killed ten people. Now, emergency officials are surveying the damage with the area likely eligible for federal aid. Severe weather also rolled through other parts of the Southeast, causing

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1. A top US official says a reactor in Syria allegedly built with North Korean help was nearly functional before was destroyed last year by Israeli fighter jets. The United States says the reactor threatened to spread dangerous nuclear materials poss

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Texas Congressman Ron Paul is the winner of the non-binding GOP presidential straw poll taken at this weekend's Values Voters Summit of social conservatives. He pulled in 37% of the votes. NPR's Don Gonyea reports Paul's strong showing is not a surpr

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Hello everyone, I'm Catherine Callaway at the CNN Center in Atlanta with a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. US and South Korean troops are all on the highest alert in three years because of North Korea. That means reconnaissance operations

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MODEL2 I have some very bad news. Helen: Bill, Ive been searching for a loan, but I was rejected everywhere. Now Im afraid I have some very bad news. Bill: What is it? Helen: Well, the company has been experiencing serious financial difficulties for

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Room For The Future At the age of forty-five,my usually well-ordered life became fraught with changes. After twenty-two years of working for a major financial institution,a downsizing initiative and a major bank merger resulted in the eli

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Founded in 1636 and set in New England, Harvard College is the oldest school at Harvard University. As Harvard began to grant higher degrees than bachelor,s degree in the late eighteenth century, people started to call it Harvard University. Harvar

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Jan 24, 2003 Mizuho, the world's largest bank in terms of assets, expects to post a net loss of $16 billion, the largest ever 1) incurred by a Japanese company. The loss would be more than double last

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M English Terms 中文翻译 详情解释/例子 M1 货币供应量1 货币供应的一种,包括所有实质金钱,例如纸币与硬币,也包括活期存款,即支票户口及即期户口 M

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President Bush today told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that recent actions by Russia against the former Soviet Republic of Georgia represent a dramatic and brutal escalation of violence. And just back from the Beijing Olympics, the presi

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Finance: Merrill Lynch CEO O'Neal Is Out After Huge Loss By Mario Ritter / Broadcast: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:00:00 UTC This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Stan O'Neal This week, directors of investment bank Merrill Lynch

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AS IT IS 2016-02-24 EU Unlikely to Lift Trade Barriers on China 欧盟不可能解除对中国的贸易壁垒 The European Union is unlikely to lift some trade barriers on China later this year because of worries that Chinese exports will lead to job

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After work each day, Wozniak would go home for a TV dinner and then return to HP to moonlight on his computer. 每天下班以后,沃兹尼亚克就回到家,一边看电视一边吃晚饭,然后就回到惠普公司连夜研究他的计算机。

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Where are you off to so early? You just got home. 你一大早要去哪儿啊,你才刚到家 The trouble with traveling overseas for a few weeks 几周海外旅行的后果是 is that a few weeks' worth of work is piling up on my desk. 几周的文件

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ECONOMICS REPORT - U.S. Officials Study Chinese Offer for American Oil Company Unocal By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, July 15, 2005 I'm Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Economics Report.

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本期内容: Shares in Allergan, a pharmaceutical firm with headquarters in Dublin, fell by 15% in response to suspicion that tax-avoidance legislation would scupper its planned $160 billion merger with Pfizer, an American drugmaker. The deal woul

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