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Broadcast: Jan 10,2003 Bank workers joined the 39 day old strike against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Thursday, 1) tightening the stranglehold which has already come close to shutting down the cou
By Ruth Reader Washington D.C. 24 January 2008 The American motion picture industry has announced this year's nominations for best picture and other Academy Awards. And the Academy for Film Arts and Sciences says the ceremony will go on as usual even
Lesson 84 On strike 罢工 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 Who will be driving the buses next week? Busmen have decided to go on strike next week. Th
avert v 避免,防止(某事的发生);转移(目光、思想等) 【例】avert one's glance from sth 避而不看某物Accidents can be averted by careful driving 谨慎驾驶可避免发生事故。 【根】a一再,vert转-一再转
By Delia Robertson A one-day nationwide strike of civil service workers in South Africa has brought education to a standstill and affected many other state agencies. Tens of thousands of civil service
By Nico Colombant Conakry 09 January 2008 Union leaders in Guinea have backed down from the threat of a general strike, after reaching an agreement with the government and long-standing President Lansana Conte over applying previous accords. The thre
Nigerian Labor Leaders Call Strike Over Minimum Wage Nigerian labor leaders are calling for a three-day general strike next week to protest failures to pay a new, national minimum wage. Negotiations on a new minimum wage for Nigerians began more than
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 October 2007 Israel has confirmed that it carried out an air strike in Syria in early September. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, leaders on both sides have said they do not want a war. Lifting a
Nigerian labor leaders are calling for a three-day general strike next week to protest failures to pay a new, national minimum wage. 尼日利亚劳工领袖呼吁在下星期进行为期三天的大罢工,以抗议政府没有做到支付新的全国
今天我们要学的词是avert。 Avert, 是避免的意思。西班牙机场工作人员威胁说,如果跟政府无法达成协议,就要在复活节期间举行罢工。不过, AENA's director said he was confident that a deal to avert the
One day after President Barack Obama urged the U.S. Congress to intensify efforts to avert a debt crisis, the Senate appears to be doing just that. A recess has been canceled, and the president has been invited to Capitol Hill for direct talks with l
By Ayaz Gul Islamabad 16 March 2008 A missile strike against a suspected militant hideout in a Pakistan tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Sunday is said to have killed at least 18 people. From Islamabad, Ayaz Gul reports. The attack took place i
By Barbara Schoetzau New York 10 November 2007 The lights dimmed on Broadway Saturday as members of the union representing stagehands went on strike. From VOA's New York Bureau, correspondent Barbara Schoetzau has the story. Picket lines replaced aud
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 18 March 2008 Nigeria's senior oil workers union is threatening a nationwide strike to protest the firing of some of its members by ExxonMobil. Members are to meet later Tuesday, following the expiration of a 21-day ultimatu
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 06 April 2008 In Egypt, a one-day labor strike calling for higher wages has had mixed results amid a security crackdown. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from Cairo. Some people refused to go to work out of so
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 19 June 2007 The Nigerian government has offered concessions to the country's two main labor unions to head off a nationwide strike set for Wednesday. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja says the unions may arrive at a final decision
今天再要讲两个新闻记者在有关选举的报道中常常会用到的两个习惯用语,而且这两个习惯用语也都来自美国最风行的棒球运动。它们还包括同一个关键词: strike。 Strike有很多不同的意思,但
WASHINGTON, March 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday voted to pass a six-month stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government in operation till September, a move to avert another possible government shutdown. By a 267-151 vote
About 16,000 high school teachers went on strike today. They did not go to school. Instead they held protest marches, and Wellington teachers took their protest to Parliament. However the teachers in Canterbury did not go on strike because school was
For the second time this month, Bangladesh was hit Sunday by a general strike that closed shops and businesses and interfered with transportation. The 36-hour work stoppage was called by the opposition(反抗对立) Bangladesh Nationalist Party a