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New Starbucks CEO to Take Over in 2017 星巴克新任首席执行官将于2017年任职 This is Whats Trending Today. 以下是今日新鲜事。 The coffee company Starbucks said its chief executive officer, Howard Schultz, plans to leave his posit

NPR 2011-09-04

Forecasters are spending another weekend keeping a watch on tropical weather. Tropical storm Lee has stalled along the Gulf Coast. And while the sun has been shining for some of today, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says its not shining now. He say

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1. To join two independent clauses, use a comma followed by a conjunction, a semicolon alone, or a semicolon followed by a sentence modifier. 2. Use commas to bracket nonrestrictive phrases, which are not essential to the sentence\'s meaning. 3. Do n

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Schultz has remained firmly committed to employee and community enrichment. As part of his ongoing efforts, Starbucks teamed up with baseball stars to promote an adult literacy campaign. 如今，舒尔茨依然坚定地致力于推动企业员工及所

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At a time when other companies were trimming benefits as a cost-cutting measure, Schultz, who grew up in a family without any medical coverage, believed that his approach is critical to building a better workforce. 当其他公司把削减福利待遇当

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During his youth Schultz was ashamed of his family working poor status. He escaped the hot Brooklyn summer one year to attend camp, but would not return when he discovered that it was funded with government money for low-income families. When he bega

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图片1 Grammar Girl here. This episode is a new and improved version of i.e. versus e.g. Misusing these two abbreviations is one of the top five mistakes I used to see when editing technical documents. There's so much confusion that in some of the d

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Grammar Girl here. Today guest-writer Bonnie Trenga is going to tell us how one little comma can change the meaning of a sentence. Should we write, He has the ball too with no comma or He has the ball, too? Well, you can write the sentence either way

英语语法：118 Comma Splice

By Mignon Fogarty I decided to write about comma splices because my friend Scott Sigler has a book coming out this week, Ancestor, published by Crown. Over three years ago, when he was publishing an earlier version of the book with a smaller publishe

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the serial comma. Here's a listener: Hi, Grammar Girl. This is Patti from Houston... Patti and her friends are debating about the serial commathe comma that comes before the final conjunction in a list. Here's a se

NPR 2012-06-14

Syrian state television is reporting the troops have retaken control of rebellious mountain village in Al-Hafa after more than a week of heavy shelling there. Rebels had withdrawn from Al-Hafa overnight after intense fighting and in nearby villages.

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AA: Im Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster -- we answer some listener mail, starting with this question sent by e-mail from Siva Kumar in Madras, in Tamil Nadu, India. RS: Dear Avi and Rosanne, I would like to know the oppos

Business Channel 2007-02-25&27

Starbucks founder and Chairman Howard Schultz with a warning and a challenge for his ever-expanding coffee empire, Schultz sees a threat to his brand, a problem that could impact everything that's made Starbucks the great American success and growth

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Business 商业报道 Starbucks v Kraft 星巴克对决卡夫 A double shot of discord 不合引发连环炮 The kings of coffee brawl with the monarchs of macaroni 咖啡之王对决通心粉之霸 STARBUCKS once seemed so unstoppable that the Onion

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By Melinda Smith Washington 17 July 2007 Antibiotics are designed to fight a multitude of bacterial infections. But some infections -- such as those in the urinary tract -- have become resistant to many antibiotics. VOA's Melinda Smith reports on a r

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Business 商业报道 Starbucks 星巴克 Just add water 加水即成 The ailing giant turns to instant coffee for a pick-me-up 亏损巨头靠速溶咖啡来提神 NO ONE can accuse Howard Schultz of inaction since he returned as chief executive of

美国国家公共电台 NPR Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Says He Wouldn't Be A Spoiler In Race For White House

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We had a talk yesterday with Howard Schultz. The billionaire former CEO of Starbucks says he is considering an independent run for president. In our talk, the man who popularized upscale coffee answered critics who warned he coul

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