Scripts: A: The Fed has got to cut rates , theres no question. B: How much? A: Er.. I think what we need to see is er, a process of cutting rates, so its less about how much today and about the, the holding up the hope of more rate cuts to come, wha

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By Jeff Swicord Howard County, Maryland 18 May 2006 watch School Drop Out report It is estimated between 15 and 30 percent of high school students in the U.S. will not graduate. And among some minorit

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Education Report - High Dropout Rate a Problem for South Africa This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Since the nineteen nineties, education has been required for all South Africans from age seven to fifteen. Last December, the government

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More than three years after Hurricane Katrina caused massive damage in New Orleans, the city has less than half its pre-hurricane population and a crime rate higher than any other city in the nation. But, as VOA's Greg Flakus reports, citizens' grou

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Today the Governor of the Reserve Bank, Dr Alan Bollard, lowered the official cash rate (OCR) to 2.5%. This is down 50 points from the 12th March. It is also a huge change from July last year when the OCR was at a high point of 8.25%. In July 2007, t

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air-conditioner n.空气调节机,冷气机 Air-conditioners make hot weather bearable, but they also cause global warming. 冷气机固然让炎热的天气变得可以忍受,却也造成全球升温。 air-conditioning n.空调,冷气(不可数

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