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内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Now, our third and final report on foundations, what they are and what they do. In the United States, education gets the most foundation dollars -- about twenty-five percent. Next is health, then progr... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Oil pipelines in AlaskaThe oil company British Petroleum has shut down a pipeline connecting the Prudhoe Bay oil fields in Alaska to the Trans-Alaska pipeline. The Prudhoe Bay field, north of the Arcti... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Indra NooyiPepsiCo this week named Indra Nooyi to become its chief executive officer in October. The food and drink company is the world's second-largest soft drink maker, behind Coca-Cola. Miz Nooyi w... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.America Online LogoHow much information can people learn about you by seeing what you look for on the Internet? Too much, say some people with Internet service from America Online. These people should ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Batteries are rarely a worry except when the devices they supply power to go dead. Overheated computer in Osaka, JapanBut in June the battery in a Dell laptop computer caught fire during a conference a... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.The president signs the new pension bill into law.In August, President Bush signed a bill making major changes to retirement plans operated by companies. These pension plans provide defined payments an... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Patricia DunnComputer-maker Hewlett-Packard announced this week that the chairwoman of its board of directors will resign in January. How Patricia Dunn came to be forced out after less than two years i... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.On Wednesday, the United States Federal Reserve chose to keep its target interest rate unchanged at five-point-two-five percent. The Federal Open Market Committee said a main reason for its decision wa... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Chinese President Hu JintaoThe United States and China plan to hold high-level meetings two times each year to discuss economic issues. The talks, called the U.S.-C... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Congress has voted to ban most financial exchanges that involve gambling on the Internet by people in the United States. The measure threatens to cut the business of several foreign companies. A game o... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Edmund PhelpsEdmund Phelps has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Economics. Mister Phelps is a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York City. The Royal Swedish Academy of Scienc... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.International trade does not just happen. It is the result of developing relationships and processes to ease the flow of goods and services.David GoodThis week, we spoke with David Good in Washington, ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.A listener in Manaus, Brazil, Luiz Roberto Alves da Costa, has a question about money. He asks why the American dollar is more stable or secure than most currencies in the international monetary system... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Listener Adamu Onakpa at Hillside High School in Cross River State, Nigeria, has a question. How can the United States be both the richest nation in the world and the biggest borrower?Part of the answe... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Investments People invest money in the hope their wealth will grow over time. People with a lot of money may have financial advisers to make investments for them. But people with limited savings can in... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance. The purpose is to let children learn from experience at an age when financial mistakes are not very costly.An allowance can go in... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.The meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders ended without announcement of major policy changes among APEC members. However, the leaders did say they were ready to make changes in their neg... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Milton Friedman in 1977, a year after he won the Nobel Prize in economic sciencesEconomists rarely shape policy to the extent that Milton Friedman did. He died on November sixteenth in San Francisco, C... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Last week, a committee released proposals to make America's publicly traded companies more competitive. The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation says costly and complex rules hurt the position of th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Peter DruckerPeter Drucker, who died a year ago, was an expert on the ways of modern organizations. He was someone who truly earned the name of "management guru." He liked to share his knowledge not by... >>详细内容