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The Christmas season in Spain begins with the drawing of the numbers for the world's biggest lottery, El Gordo. This year, El Gordo (or The Fat One) paid out more than 2 billion to lucky ticket holders across Spain, with 18 million going to Rebollo

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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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Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez celebrated May Day, the international workers' holiday, by issuing a decree that transferred control of the country's last privately owned oil fields to government control. The state will own at least 60% of every oil

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The News Corporation is not the only media conglomerate trying to buy a well-known financial news publisher. British news and financial information provider Reuters announced that Canada's Thomson Corporation has made a bid to buy them out. Thomson

BEC商务英语初级：带你走通备考三阶段

毫无疑问，BEC是近年来最受追捧的外语考试之一。有了它的证书，就相当于有了外企的敲门砖。下面我为大家介绍BEC高级的一个月备考方案，帮助大家在一个月之内有条不紊地进行复习，在考

BEC商务英语初级常考电话用语

1.Let me confirm your name and room number. 我需要确定一下您的姓名和房间号码。 2.This is Gao Qiang in Room 409. 我是409房间的高强。 3.Mr. Gao in Room 409. 409房间的高先生。 4.OK. We'll ring you up at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow

IBM再次抛售联想股票

In December of 2004, IBM sold their personal computer division to Chinese computer company Lenovo for $650 million in cash and $600 million in stock. IBM has just sold off 300 million shares of Lenovo stock, going from a 13.2% ownership in the compa

NASDAQ放弃恶意收购LSE

The American stock exchange NASDAQ is giving up on their hostile takeover attempt for the London Stock Exchange. They had insisted that LSE shares were overvalued and that the $24.35 per share that they offered was fair, but they only received accep

星巴克会不会搬出故宫

China's Forbidden City may become forbidden for the Starbucks chain of coffee shops. Chinese nationalists have protested the Starbucks outlet in the Imperial Palace since it opened in 2000, and an online campaign begun by a television host has led t

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Apple and Apple have settled their long trademark dispute. Steve Jobs' company, which just renamed themselves from Apple Computer to Apple Inc., and Apple Corps, the company that has overseen the interests of British pop group the Beatles since they

微软发行Vista

Microsoft has released Vista, the long-delayed new version of their Windows operating system. In addition to a more three-dimensional user interface, other improvements advertised by Microsoft include better security, easier creation of multimedia D

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A Dell is running Dell again. Michael Dell, who began Dell Inc. by building computers in his University of Texas dorm room for other students, is moving back into the position of chief executive at the company. He replaces Kevin Rollins after a year

NASDAQ步步紧逼， LSE力抗收购

The London Stock Exchange does not want to sell out to the American stock exchange NASDAQ, and NASDAQ is trying even harder to buy them. On Thursday, NASDAQ told LSE shareholders that they had a week to encourage LSE management to begin talks with N

Youtube卖了

Twenty months after founding the video website YouTube, founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have accepted a $1.65 billion offer for the company from search engine Google. YouTube has become famous for providing videos of everything from last night's

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Several days after Columbia University's Edmund Phelps won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his theories about the relationship between inflation and unemployment, the Noble Peace Prize was awarded to a man with some useful ideas about economics. Mu

BP阿拉斯加油田再次开门

British Petroleum has put someone new in charge of their operations in Alaska, where they spilled 800,000 gallons of oil in March and where they shut down the biggest oil field in the United States in August because of pipeline corrosion. BP is the

国际货币基金组织决策权选票重新分

The International Monetary Fund is giving a bigger share of votes to Mexico, Turkey, South Korea, and especially China to account for the growing role their economies play in the world. The United States encouraged this change to give these countrie

油价回落APEC担忧连连

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

阿尔卡特，朗讯即将合并

Shareholders of the telecommunications equipment manufacturers Alcatel and Lucent have approved an $11 billion merger of the two companies. The new company, which will be called Alcatel Lucent, will be the world's largest telecommunications equipmen

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