The Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise the benchmark interest rate before 2014. Its policymaking arm, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), is trying to reassure consumers and investors they'll be able to borrow cheaply well into the future. St

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(DUBLIN, Reuters)Excessive drinking in Irish universities is contributing to a high dropout rate, education officials said. (路透社都柏林电)爱尔兰教育官员表示,在爱尔兰大学一些大学生饮酒过量,造成高退学率。

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Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution, or EDGE, is a digital mobile phone technology which acts as a bolt-on enhancement to 2G and 2.5G General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks. This technology wo

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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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JUDY WOODRUFF: This month's jobs report was the first one since the government shutdown that captured some of its wider impact. It also came one day after a government report found stronger-than-expected growthin the U.S. economy just before the shut

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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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