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内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Last week, we discussed ways that many small businesses areorganized. This week, we examine the structure of big business. Themost complex is the corporation. This kind of business orga... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Takeovers are a common part of business. One company offers tobuy a controlling share of stock in another. But that other companymay not want to be bought. What then?Last week, in the U... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Wal-MartSupercenter in Reno, Nevada.Discount stores sell goods at lowprices. They succeed only if they sell a lot of goods and keep theircosts low. One company has succeeded beyond imag... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Companies often give work to an outside business that can do thejob for less money than their own employees could. This is calledoutsourcing. Outsourcing has become a political issue in... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Last Friday, a jury in New York found that businesswoman MarthaStewart lied and tried to interfere with a federal investigation.She is in the business of advice and products for home de... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.The United States recently reported a record deficit in itscurrent account balance. The current account is a measure of thenation's trade with other countries. Last year, America's comb... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.The European Union's Commission on Competition ruled Wednesdaythat the Microsoft Corporation has used its powerful market positionillegally. The E-U ordered Microsoft to provide informa... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.For fifty years, the business magazine Fortune has published alist of the five-hundred biggest companies in the United States. Thenew Fortune five-hundred list has come out. For the thi... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Last week, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countriesdecided to reduce oil production by about four percent startingApril first. Oil ministers from eleven member nations met ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.April fifteenth is a special date for Americans. But it is noholiday. It is tax day. It is the last day to pay any federal taxesowed on earnings from the year before.The Constitution gi... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.EarlyMacintoshOne of the most powerful toolsever developed is the P.C., the personal computer. One of thecompanies important to the history of the P.C. is Apple Computer.Apple is based ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.The International Monetary Fund says it expects the world economyto grow more than four-percent both this year and next. Its chiefeconomist says these could be the best two years since ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Last week, a group of three World Trade Organization officialsruled against the United States in a case brought by Brazil. Theyruled that government payments to American cotton farmers ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Google is a powerful tool for users of the electroniccommunications system called the Internet. Computer users connectingto the Internet can use Google to search for any word, name or i... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Concern about inflation is in the news a lot lately. In theUnited States, prices have risen especially for gasoline and otherforms of energy. Higher energy prices lead to higher prices ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Russia is the largest economic power that is not a member of theWorld Trade Organization. But that may change. Last Friday, theEuropean Union said it would support Russia's effort... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Not many people would admit they were paid too much for a job.But that is what Richard Grasso is being asked to do. Mister Grassowas chief of the New York Stock Exchange until last Sept... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.The Labor Department says the United States economy createdtwo-hundred-forty-eight-thousand jobs in May. The department saysalmost one million jobs have been added in the last three mon... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Financial markets are preparing for something that has nothappened since May of two-thousand. The United States central bank,the Federal Reserve, is expected to raise interest rates at ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English EconomicsReport.Two-thousand-three was a good year for wealthy people around theworld.Merrill Lynch and Capgemini have released their yearly WorldWealth Report. Merrill Lynch is an American financial s... >>详细内容