1. Investigators have finished ripping up the concrete floor of a New York city basement where they are searching for traces of a six-year-old boy who vanished in 1979. So far though, authorities haven't given any outward sign that they found anythin

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A question from Vietnam. Listener Nguyen Minh Tan wants to know more about the World Trade Organization and its history. Pascal Lamy is WTO director-general The World Trade Organization came into exi

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IMF预测今年世界经济平均增长3.3% The International Monetary Fund has cut its outlook for global economic growth, saying the recovery is likely to be uneven. The global lending organization predicts overall growth will average 3.3 percent t

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After almost reaching $80 a barrel in July, oil prices have dipped below $64, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is worried about further price drops. At a meeting in Vienna, the cartel of mostly mideastern oil-producin

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Dollar Is World's Most Traded Currency. But Why?By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, October 27, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A listener in Manaus, Brazil, L

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Four Countries Gain Increased I.M.F. Voting RightsBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, September 25, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. I.M.F. Chief Rodrigo de Ra

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184 肯尼亚通过反贪污议案 Controversial Amnesty Included in Kenya Anti-Corruption Bill Katy Salmon Nairobi 17 Jul 2001 16:37 UTC Kenya's attorney general has published a new anti-corruption b

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3月10日上午,十二届全国人大五次会议新闻中心举行发布会。中国人民银行行长周小川、副行长易纲、副行长兼国家外汇管理局局长潘功胜、副行长范一飞就金融改革与发展的相关问题回答中

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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor held her ground through another day of intense questioning by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. President Obama's pick to replace retiring Justice David Souter refused to be drawn out on the abort

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From NPR News in Washington, Im Giles Snyder Authorities are urging people to stay off the roads in parts of the mid-Atlantic region. Blowing snow is keeping visibility to a minimum. Pennsylvanias governor has shut down large parts of three major hig

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Markets rally today on signs that European Union leaders are making progress in addressing the debt crisis. On Wall Street the Dow was up 304 points, the NASDAQ up 79. A European Union summits scheduled for next Monday has been delayed to give leader

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jim Howard. At least 13 people are dead in anti-Israeli protests along the Lebanese and Syrian borders and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The violence comes on a day called Nakba, the annual observa

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Anyone looking for a big party? Green Bay is where it's at. Fans are heading into Lambeau Field this hour to welcome their Super Bowl champs the Packers, who defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers yesterday. Classes were let out early. Some businesses shut

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1. For anyone with a unique name, going through roll call at school may have been a struggle, especially when the teacher butchers your name. 1、凡是名字特别的,学校里碰到点名也许就是一场煎熬,尤其是老师乱叫你名字的时

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大家都知道,$表示美元。那么它是怎样来的呢?一种说法是,它是PS叠合写法的演变。PS是18至19世纪期间美国的一种圆形硬币比索(Pesos)的缩写,这种硬币在1974年美国正式

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大家都知道,$表示美元。那么它是怎样来的呢?一种说法是,它是PS叠合写法的演变。PS是18至19世纪期间美国的一种圆形硬币比索(Pesos)的缩写,这种硬币在1974年美国正式建立造币厂以前一直在

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IMF Dismisses Anti-Globalization Criticism Barry Wood Washington 31 Aug 2001 07:04 UTC The International Monetary Fund is 1)dismissing a set of demands issued by a group planning protests during the a

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A burning barricade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Food inflation has led to growing protests in developing countries. In Haiti, the government fell Saturday after riots in which several people died. Some

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Robert Zoellick is President Bush's choice to head the World Bank. He is fifty-three years old and currently a vice chairman at Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank. He has held a number of

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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, economic worries turned from inflation. On Wednesday, central banks in nations around the world acted together to lower interest rates. The fear is that a lack of credit and falling demand

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