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US Economy Grew at Slower Pace in Second Quarter U.S. domestic output weakened in the second quarter, growing at the slowest pace in 9 months. The slowdown is blamed partly on unusually warm weather - a prolonged drought that decimated farm inventori
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Slower economic growth in the United States pushed global stocks lower Friday. The U.S. Commerce Department reports the country's gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economic health, grew by a disappointing 2.4 percent in the
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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: An effort to help American veterans get medical care faster is not working. NPR and some of its member stations have investigated a multi-billion dollar U.S. government program for veterans. It is supposed to add more doctors, nu
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本单元是关于季决赛的对话 Tim: England are out! We lost on penalties again! Alice: I'm gutted! I blame Rooney. Tim: He didn't do nuffink! Alice: How can you say that? We all saw what he did. The ref had to send him off. Tim: I still say we was robbed
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It's a quarter past midnight 时钟敲过零点分针指向一刻 As we cut through the city 当我们穿越这座城市 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the streets are getting restless 大街小巷开始躁动起来 Good times bad decisions 大好时光正适合做
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By George Dwyer Washington, D.C. 24 July 2006 watch Google profit report Google Inc., the U.S.-based web search firm, announced last week its profits have more than doubled in the most recent quarter. The company has managed to avoid the seasonal sl
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NEW YORK, Mar 10 (Reuters) - YouTube, the popular video site owned by Google Inc, said on Thursday it is adding 200 jobs, boosting its staff by more than 30 percent in its biggest hiring year. In a blog posting, the company also said more than 35 hou
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今天我们要学的词是staff。Staff 做为名词是工作人员，比如 staff meeting就是职工会议。The Washington Times plans to cut staff for a second time in three years. 华盛顿时报计划裁员，这是三年以来的第二次了。
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. economy expanded by an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, partly boosted by personal consumption and exports, the Commerce Department（商务部） reported Friday. U.S. real gross dome
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MADRID, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Reigning ACB title holders Real Barcelona took their revenge over this season's runaway league leaders and Copa del Rey holders, Real Madrid, by sending their bitter rivals on the first bus home after a thrilling 111-108 wi
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Overall bank lending conditions for emerging markets have improved for the first time since the second quarter of 2011, said a global financial industry report on Wednesday. The emerging market bank lending index rose
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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 06 September 2006 The Eritrean government has expelled five U.N. staff members on spying allegations. Four out of the five are members of the U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The fifth was formerly a security coordinat
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NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- US powerful Serena Williams served nine aces to dispatch former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic in straight sets among gusty wind, advancing into the quarterfinal of US Open on Monday. Williams, a 13-time major champion and thr
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今天我们要学的词是half-staff。Half-staff, 意思是降半旗。 As a matter of protocol, U.N. offices around the globe lowered their flags to half-staff to mark the funeral of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, 不久前维吉尼亚理工
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LOS ANGELES, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. reported a 40.2-million-U.S.-dollar fourth quarter earnings in 2012 on Monday, a remarkable feat which was buoyed up by the screening of two popular movies of Skyfall and The Hobbit: An Unexp
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MADRID, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona had few problems in booking their place in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey on Thursday night. Following a 2-0 first leg win away to Cordoba the reigning Cup holders were always favorites to progress to
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TOKYO, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Japan's economy shrank(缩小) an annualized real 1.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, marking the first contraction in five quarters, the Cabinet Office said Monday. The October-December period figure, measured by gr
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BERLIN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- German economy （经济） has seen a rapid recovery in the second quarter, as the gross domestic product (GDP) （国内生成总值） registered a growth of 2.2 percent compared with the first quarter, a record in the
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Britain's economy is sinking further into recession, even more than analysts had projected. The British government said Wednesday its economy contracted seven-tenths of a percent in the April-to-June period, its worst quarter since the height of the
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The Ombudsman, Beverley Wakeham, told a Parliamentary committee that her office has too much work and too few staff. She needs another $1m to employ extra staff and for general administration. The job of the Ombudsman office is to deal with complaint
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