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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The World Health Organization says the rising cost of health care is a struggle for people and governments around the world. The problem is greatest in countries where people must often pay directly for

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Not to Expect Profits Soon from Euro Disney The Euro Disney Corporation, acknowledging that its elaborate theme park had not performed as strongly as expected, announced Thursday that it would sustain a net financial loss of unpredictable scale in it

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The problems that Dell, Apple, Toshiba, Lenovo, and other laptop makers have had with Sony battery recalls have finally caught up with Sony. That plus development costs for their upcoming PS3 video game machine gave Sony a 94% drop in profits for th

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By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: November 6, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. A new report says the cost of studies at public colleges in the United States increased

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Experts Debate Financial Future of American Higher Education Sweet Briar College is a small, private womens college in the American state of Virginia. In 2015, the schools governing board grew concerned about its financial future and considered closi

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Executives of major U.S. banks faced tough questions Wednesday from U.S. lawmakers frustrated by the slow pace of lending by institutions that received federal bail out money. Lawmakers also vented their anger over high salaries and bonuses in the fi

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Cost 成本 In our society, everything has its cost. 在我们的社会里，一切都是有成本的. What is the cost? 什么是成本？ A cost is something you have to give up in order to get another thing. 成本是你为了得到另一件东西而

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Stock prices plummeted in New York on Monday. And a recession was declared as of a year ago. VOA's Barry Wood has more. Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, 01 Dec. 2008 On Wall Street, it was the fourth biggest daily point decl

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AS IT IS 2013-09-18 Congress, Divided over Health Care Law, Faces a Budget Time Limit From VOA Learning English, welcome to As It Is! Im Mario Ritter. Today, we hear about the budget debate in Washington. The first order of business must be to pass a

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Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson said Wednesday that the biggest U.S. banks are too powerful and exert too much influence over the government. Johnson told an audience at Washington's School of Advanced International

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The major high income and developing countries that set policy for the 185 member-nation World Bank agreed in Washington on Sunday that the bank should boost its lending to help poor countries adversely affected by the global economic slowdown. From

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