The Chinese offshore oil corporation known as CNOOC has abandoned its bid for UNOCAL. This would have been the largest-ever purchase of an American company by a Chinese firm. CNOOC had put forth a bid that was higher than the competing bid from US o

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Kansas voters are going to choose their nominees for governor tomorrow. And on the Republican ballot is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Now, he became nationally known for imposing a strict voter registration law that was l

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By David Byrd Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 17 July 2007 They come from as far away as Hong Kong, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Laos, but they compete for the United States and share a passion for the sport of badminton. VOA's David Byrd filed this report o

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The NBAs end-of-season awards are a neat time capsule to look back on decades later, with the benefit of perspective . Take 2003-04, for example, when Kevin Garnett was the MVP, LeBron James the Rookie of the Year, Ron Artest the Defensive Player of

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SHANGHAI, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Vice Premier Li Keqiang has urged local governments to improve and implement structural tax-reduction polices, while pushing forward fiscal and tax reforms to help stabilize growth. Li made the remarks at two meetings he

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In English, we use the word get (or its past tense got) very often. Sometimes we say get by itself; sometimes we say get as part of a phrasal verb such as get in or get up. And we use get/got to mean many different things. If I get a newspaper, it me

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