Continental Airlines says it has called off its merger talks with United Airlines and will instead remain an independent air carrier. United had hoped to reach an agreement with Continental by late this week. But Continental's board of directors dec

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 2008年NPR美国国家公共电台四月

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama today sought to further distance himself from comments by his former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Obama calling some of Wright's racially tinged remarks appalling. Speaking in North Carolina toda

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The Democratic presidential candidates are coming closer to the wire in what is shaping up to be a hard-fought battle for the nomination. A day after Hillary Clinton pulled off, what some pundits have termed, a must-win victory in Pennsylvania's pri

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Federal regulators are reportedly conferring with executives from Citigroup about a possible rescue plan. The New York Times says under the proposal, if Citigroup's losses on shaky mortgage-related assets reach a certain level, the government would

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Meeting with his economic advisors and others at the White House today, President Barack Obama said even with the economic challenges facing the nation, he plans to cut the nations budget deficit by half by the end of his first term in office. Presi

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To say stock market investors are pessimistic as the week winds down would be something of an understatement. All three of the major stock market indexes ended the session lower today. The fresh bear market lows followed remarks from Senate Banking

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President Barack Obama made it official today in a speech to Marines at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. He said US combat troops will be out of Iraq by August of next year. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from Camp Lejeune. The president's announcement mea

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Macedonians to Decide Whether to Change Their Countrys Name Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov is urging Macedonians to boycott a popular vote on whether the country should change its name. He called changing the countrys name from the Republic of Ma

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年VOA慢速英语(九)月

非常高兴又和小伙伴们相约在City Tempo 城市律动栏目组!本期我们将透过电波带着大家来到东南亚久享盛名的国家文莱!文莱是一个受上天眷顾的的国家,丰富的石油与天然气储备让他跻身全球

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Democrats may end up flipping 40 House seats this year. Many of that party's wins in the midterms were in the suburbs. Districts around Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston and Oklahoma City all went blue. So how's that going to transla

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The top US general in Iraq has been spending the day getting grilled by lawmakers on Capital Hill. General David Petraeus told members of Senate committee today he thinks there should be a pause in troop withdrawls this summer in order to reassess t

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American Airlines which for a third straight day cancelled hundreds of flights as it carries out inspections of its MD-80 jetliners said today it hopes to be able to resume normal operations by the weekend. So far, the nations largest airline has to

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Sunny / Korea speaker I'm from Korea, and it's developed very recently in a rapid pace, so I think competition is the one thing that people always have in mind, and I hope Korea can be a little slow-paced and relaxed. Tim / United States speaker In A

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A Visit to Americas National Cryptologic Museum From VOA Learning English, this is EXPLORATIONS in Special English. Im Jeri Watson. 这里是美国之音慢速英语探索发现频道。我是Jeri Watson。 And Im Jim Tedder. Today we visit a small m

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A UN peacekeeper was killed in Port-au-Prince this afternoon, hours after Haitian lawmakers ousted Prime Minister Jacques-douard Alexis, following days of deadly violence over soaring food prices. President Rene Preval said he'd immediately move to

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. President Bush has opened the final summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Russia's Black Sea coast at a tense time in relations between the two countries. But there was no sign of tro

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Transcript From NPR news, in Washington, I am Jack Speer. Georgia and Ukraine may not have formally got on the path toward NATO membership today, but the alliance did pledge eventual membership for the two ex-Soviet states. And Bush administration o

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From NPR News in Washington, I am Jack Speer. Top leaders in the Senate under increasing pressure to do something about the rising number of foreclosures in the housing market opted to put aside some of their differences today and get moving on a pl

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Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan has once again provoked criticism, this time from an American blogger, after suggesting on Chinese television that the US is the most corrupt country in the world. When you talk about corruption the whole world, is t

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Eucharia, Ireland speaker Oh, my most favorite country, that's so hard because I've loved every country I've visited for different reasons but I really loved Australia and in particular Melbourne city. Now, I'm not a city person but Melbourne is a re

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