CNN Marketplace 2006-06-01
时间：2019-01-26 作者：英语课 分类：商业报道2006年
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Michelle Wright: Delta's pilots have approved an agreement which will help the bankrupt carrier get back on its feet, says Airline spokeswoman Chris Kelly.
Chris Kelly: We are er, feel pretty good er, that this will get us where we need to be. This contributes to the numbers that we outlined in our transformation 1 plan right after we went into the bankruptcy 2 court, and that we're fairly confident that er, this should do it for a while.
Michelle Wright: The deal includes 280 million dollars in concessions 3, including an initial 14% pay cut.
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Michelle Wright: It's not the content of character, but the color of one's skin that could determine the rate you pay for a mortgage, according to a recent study.
Matt Cherry: A report by the Center for Responsible Lending finds African-Americans and Latinos are 30% more likely to get higher rates for home loans than whites, that's irregardless of credit scores and risk factors.
Debbie Gruenstien Bocian: Racial and ethnic 4 disparities persist even despite, um controlling for these, these risk factors.
Matt Cherry: Center Senior Analyst 5 Debbie Gruenstein Bocian adds that many lenders and brokers 6 steer 7 people into higher cost loans than they can afford. She says those high-cost lenders may be targeting minorities more aggressively. Matt Cherry, CNN.
Michelle Wright: Speaking of mortgages, applications fell last week as the rate for 30-year fixed 8 loans increase to 6.66%, that's the highest it's been in 4 years. However, 15-year fixed rate mortgages and adjustable 9 rate mortgages were down.
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Michelle Wright: The markets continue their roller coaster ride through Wall Street and gas prices are leading the way.
Larry Wachtel: You saw yesterday and there was an anouncement from Wal-Mart that rising gasoline prices is indeed impacting the consumers' ability to spend. So there're so many crosscurrents that lead to the volatility 10.
Michelle Wright: Wachovia Securities consultant 11 Larry Wachtel.
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Michelle Wright: And it looks like we are a little more confident when it comes to keeping our jobs.
Lee Garen: A new survey completed by Right Management indicates that American workers feel more confident about their job security today than they did 6 months ago. Over 80% feel there's little to no chance that they will lose their job during the coming year.
Michelle Wright: CNN's Lee Garen.
With CNN radio in the marketplace, I'm Michelle Wright.
- Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大学使她的观念发生了巨大的变化。
- He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。
- You will have to pull in if you want to escape bankruptcy.如果你想避免破产，就必须节省开支。
- His firm is just on thin ice of bankruptcy.他的商号正面临破产的危险。
- The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike. 要想避免罢工，公司将不得不作出一些让步。
- The concessions did little to placate the students. 让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。
- This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
- The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
- What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
- The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
- The firm in question was Alsbery & Co., whiskey brokers. 那家公司叫阿尔斯伯里公司，经销威士忌。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
- From time to time a telephone would ring in the brokers' offices. 那两排经纪人房间里不时响着叮令的电话。 来自子夜部分
- If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
- It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。
- Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
- Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。
- More expensive cameras have adjustable focusing.比较贵的照相机有可调焦距。
- The chair has the virtue of being adjustable.这种椅子具有可调节的优点。
- That was one reason why volatility was so low last year.这也是去年波动性如此低的原因之一。
- Yet because volatility remained low for so long,disaster myopia prevailed.然而，由于相当长的时间里波动性小，灾难短视就获胜了。
- He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
- Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来，加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。