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CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Christopher Cruise. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Some jobs require little or no creativity. Other jobs are all about creativity. This week on our program, we meet two A

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: In her Oscar acceptance speech last night Frances McDormand, who had just been handed the statue for best actress, asked every female nominee in the room to stand up. (SOUNDBITE OF 90TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS) FRANCES MCDORMAN

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Clip 1 If you have a look at this first graph, you can see that our sales topped 50 million the year before last. Then last year sales dropped to 40 million, with a slight recovery at the end of the financial year. However, this year sales have cont

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A lot can happen in a month in China or at least in its markets. In the past four weeks, its banking regulator has launched a regulatory windstorm while the central bank has made the first move to ease capital controls, providing much needed liquidit

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By Greg Flakus Houston, Texas 18 March 2008 Cowboys and cowgirls from around the world are in Houston, Texas for what is billed as the biggest livestock show and rodeo in the world. The annual event includessaddle bronc riding, bull riding, steer ro

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Earlier this month, the Chicago Tribune newspaper sent a reporter to church four hundred kilometers away in the little town of Mount Vernon, in southern Illinois. Minister Coy Huffman holds services during pro rodeo events. Here he delivers a Power

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Nancy Martiny has made it in a man's world. She started making western saddles as a hobby but there's now a three-year waiting list of people lined up to buy her designs. Martiny builds her saddles from the ground up, eventually carving and stamping

20th Ibero-American Summit concludes

MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- The 20th Ibero- American Summit concluded here on Saturday with the issuance of a Declaration of Mar del Plata. The declaration from the two-day summit, which started on Friday, included an ambitious educa

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Chile denies exclusion from 2014 Dakar Rally

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指数提供商 A股再遇MSCI明晟时刻

It was a year ago that index provider MSCI contemplated including Chinese domestic-listed A shares in its emerging market indices. The Chinese market was charging ahead, with the Shanghai Composite index peaking on June 12, two days after MSCI opted

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After his beloved horse died, a man wanted to place an ad in the newspaper like this: Horse saddle and bridle for $50. 一个人衷爱的马死了，他打算在报上登则广告如下：50元卖马鞍和马缰绳。 Inadvertently the paper added a

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UN chief calls for inclusion of conflict areas in development planning

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- Mediating, strengthening governance and creating jobs were some of the UN objectives highlighted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to ensure that people living in conflict areas or in countries emergin

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If, 20 or 30 years from now, central banks and sovereign wealth funds hold a significant portion of their reserves in renminbi-denominated assets, financial historians will probably look back on 2015 as a turning point. 如果二、三十年后，各国

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请看《中国日报》的报道： The scholars, including linguists and senior reporters, said the inclusion of words such as the basketball league NBA and PM2.5, a measure of air pollution, violated regulations covering the Chinese language, incl

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