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Can US Win its War on Drugs? Anthony Papa spent 12 years in prison for attempting to deliver 125 grams of cocaine, his first and only try. His profit would have been $500. Although he discovered his talent for art behind bars, others suffered. I was
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President-elect Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass an economic recovery plan in the next few weeks. He warned about the deepening recession in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, less than two
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President Obama is praising a new Treasury Department plan to rein in executive compensation by 50%. The seven largest companies had received billions in taxpayer bailouts. Speaking at the White House, the president said that many Americans were not
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Two years after it was appointed by the governor, a panel has delivered its report on education in California. One of its findings is that half of the students who reach the ninth grade will never graduate. There were about 6 million students in Cali
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Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is too big to fail -- President Obama U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for tighter regulation of America's largest banks and lending institutions. The president's plan would
VOA标准英语2010年(一月)
By Scott Stearns White House 22 March 2008 President Bush marked Easter weekend with a message of thanks for U.S. troops serving overseas. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, opposition Democrats say the war in Iraq is distracting fr
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President Bush says his biggest priorities for 2006 are winning the fight against terrorism and keeping the U.S. economy growing by creating more jobs. Opposition Democrats say the president is unfairly cutting spending on social programs. 布什总统
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Spying on New York Muslims Yields No Leads Surveillance of the Muslim community by the NYPDs secret Demographics Unit for at least the past six years has not yielded a single lead or launched any terror investigation. That statement, part of a decade
VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
President Obama records his Weekly Address for 24 Apr 2010 And that is how, after two very difficult years, we will not only revive the economy, but help to rebuild it stronger than ever before, said President Barack Obama. U.S. President Barack Obam
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We were shocked. We had assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them. But it did not. For under a dollar, there were interventions that
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Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the Prime Minister should keep his opinions on the burkas himself. Tony Abbott says he finds such facial coverings confronting and would prefer that wasn't worn in Australia. Mr. Shorten says he is disappoi
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The Federal government has conceded it's still working out how much it will cost to store people's phone and internet records under new national security laws. The government's introduced legislation that would require the records be kept for two yea
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REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AFTER REGULATORY REFORM MEETING Diplomatic Reception Room February 25, 2009 3:56 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. This afternoon, I met with members of my economic team and some key leaders in Congress to discuss th
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For the past three and a half years, weve been fighting our way back from an historic economic crisis one caused by breathtaking irresponsibility on the part of some on Wall Street who treated our financial system like a casino. 在过去的三年半中
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The Prime Minister, John Key, has chosen Hekia Parata to replace Pansy Wong. Ms Parata has also been given three Associate Minister positions: Associate Minister of ACC, Energy and Resources, and Community and Voluntary Sector. She has only been an M
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Controversial plans to boost party electoral funding have been put on hold, the coalition appears to be walking away from the taxpayer increase in the wake of a big vote of back lash. The government has now decided to delay introducing that bill into
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Hi, everybody. 大家好。 Over the past month, I've been visiting towns across America, 上个月我走访全国多个城市， talking about what our country needs to do to secure a better bargain for the middle class. 与人们交流如何为中产
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Cabinet Ministers like the Minister for Foreign Affairs, or the Minister for Trade or the Minister for the Environment have to travel overseas as part of their job. They have a credit card to pay for expenses such as hotels, taxis and food. They are
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MPs get money to travel around New Zealand and overseas on important business. However, if they take their family overseas and expect the taxpayer to pay, this can cause trouble. Two MPs are in trouble for this. The first one, Rodney Hide, from the A
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