a*****g
发帖数: 19398 | 1 From The Chicago Tribune, Monday, June 1, 2015. See http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83671799/
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CPS chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett resigns amid federal criminal investigation
By Juan Perez Jr
Barbara Byrd-Bennett has resigned as chief executive of the Chicago Public
Schools amid a federal investigation into a $20.5 million no-bid contract.
In a letter dated last week, Byrd-Bennett said she planned to step down
Monday. She did not give any reasons ... 阅读全帖 |
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k**w
发帖数: 376 | 2 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1080594/1/.html
Chinese ship asks Japan ships to stop surveys amid row
Posted: 11 September 2010 1650 hrs
Photos 1 of 1
A group of Chinese hold a protest in southwest China's Chongqing against the
seizure of a trawler by Japanese vessels
Related News
• China postpones Japan talks in protest at boat incident
• China summons Japan envoy again over boat row
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发帖数: 8594 | 3 有些鸟人还天天说香港人爱国不爱党，反党不反国。瞧瞧BBC的新闻标题吧。
Hong Kong votes amid rising anti-China feeling
Hong Kong's residents have voted for a new legislature, with pro-democracy
candidates expected to benefit from weeks of anti-China protests. |
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发帖数: 5093 | 4 The White House is considering imposing travel restrictions on China amid an
escalating death toll from the new coronavirus, two senior administration
officials said Tuesday.
The restrictions could affect flights into and out of China, as well as
airports across the United States, the officials said.
The officials declined to be named because no final decision has been made.
A senior staff meeting was held at the White House on Monday during which
the restrictions were discussed. |
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发帖数: 4825 | 5 https://www.ft.com/content/2602d57c-6ad4-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3
Corporate borrowing costs soar amid default fears
Interest rates for even highly rated companies double from levels of days
ago
Borrowing costs for companies around the world are rising dramatically
despite central bank interest rate cuts as rating agencies warn that the
economic impact of the coronavirus will lead to a surge of corporate
downgrades and defaults.
Fears about creditworthiness are prompting investors to put their ... 阅读全帖 |
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p*****e
发帖数: 17 | 6 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区,原文如下 】
发信人: pureone (roaming in the universe), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: Amid China's Boom, No Helping Hand
发信站: Unknown Space - 未名空间 (Sat Jul 31 17:30:39 2004) WWW-POST
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/international/01CHIN.html?pagewanted=1&hp
Just read NY times today. A high school student committed suicide because his
teacher banned him from attending national exams for college. In Si Chuan
province....
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 7 By MAGGIE MICHAEL
Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) -- Voting in election runoffs for Egypt's first parliament since
Hosni Mubarak's ouster resumed on Wednesday without the long lines outside
polling centers seen in previous rounds of the staggered vote.
The balloting comes amid growing calls for the ruling military to step down
and allow the next parliament to form a national unity government that would
take over the reins of power until a new president is elected before the
end of June. Another scen... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 597 | 10 China vows rural support amid slowdown
(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-02-02 07:46
Jobseekers attend a job fair held for migrant workers in Fanchang, east
China's Anhui Province, January 31, 2009. [Xinhua]
China will plough ahead with tough measures to develop rural areas and
agriculture in 2009 despite expectations that this year will witness the
hardest challenges of the last decade, the central government said Sunday.
Related readings:
Rice purchasing price to rise by 16%
Bumper harvests lift far |
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发帖数: 2136 | 11 Detroit homes sell for $1 amid mortgage and car industry crisis
One in five houses left empty as foreclosures mount and property prices drop
by 80%
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 March 2010
Some might say Jon Brumit overpaid when he stumped up $100 (£65) for a
whole house. Drive through Detroit neighbourhoods once clogged with the cars
that made the city the envy of America and there are homes to be had for a
single dollar.
You find these houses among boarded-up, burnt-out and rotting buildings |
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c********2
发帖数: 2773 | 12 【 以下文字转载自 Texas 讨论区 】
发信人: cindyliu02 (Kirby's mom), 信区: Texas
标 题: Blue Bell Creameries Recalls All of Its Products Amid Listeria Scare
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Apr 21 11:15:47 2015, 美东)
BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries issued a voluntary
recall Monday night for all of its products on the market after two samples
of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream tested positive for listeria, a
potentially deadly bacteria.
The company “cannot say with certainty” how the bacteria was int... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3065 | 13 http://www.platinum.matthey.com/media-room/news-room/platinum-r
Platinum, rhodium, palladium production falls at Anglo American amid safety
stoppages 27th January 2012
Anglo American says platinum production has slipped by a fifth over the last
year due to a greater number of safety stoppages resulting in lower mine
production and increased processing of lower grade surface stockpiles.
Refined platinum production decreased 19 per cent to 710,000 oz, the miner
said, giving an update on operations... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1877 | 15 Amid Billions of Losses, Macro Hedge Funds Search for ‘Which Way Is Up’
By
Rob Copeland
and
Juliet Chung
June 13, 2014
In today’s Wall Street Journal, we noted how many famous hedge-fund
managers who seek to profit by correctly forecasting broad economic trends
have turned in billions of dollars in paper losses, in a year that has
otherwise been relatively placid for investors the world over.
Investors flocked to these so-called macro funds after 2008, when they on
average ga... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7843 | 16 http://news.yahoo.com/jeans-face-uncertain-future-amid-07003020
"sales of jeans in the U.S. fell 6 percent to $16 billion during the year
that ended in June, according to market research firm NPD Group, while sales
of yoga pants and other "active wear" climbed 7 percent to $33.6 billion."
Yoga pants 的时代万岁... |
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发帖数: 19309 | 17 NVIDIA pulls 196.75 driver amid reports it's frying graphics cards
from Engadget by Vladislav Savov
9 people liked this
One of the discussions that arise anytime we bring up a new graphics card
from ATI or NVIDIA is about which company has the better drivers. Well, this
should help sway the argument a little bit. It would seem StarCraft II Beta
players were among the first to notice low frame rates while using the
latest drivers from NVIDIA, and further digging has uncovered that the
automated f |
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发帖数: 16092 | 18 SINGAPORE (Kyodo) -- Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and
Vietnamese Defense Minister Gen. Phung Quang Thanh agreed Sunday to
strengthen defense cooperation amid alarm in both countries over China's
maritime assertiveness in the East and South China seas.
Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera, left, and his Vietnamese
counterpart Gen. Phung Quang Thanh shake hands in Singapore June 1. ©
Kyodo
"We need to send a joint message among parties concerned because doing so
will h... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9485 | 19 http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/thanksgiving-gratitude-am
Most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints live outside
of the United States and will not celebrate the traditional American
holiday of Thanksgiving. Members in Canada celebrate Thanksgiving in October
, and other celebrations of gratitude occur around the world at different
times. American members will participate this week, but throughout the year,
Church members worldwide express gratitude for God’s blessings... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3932 | 21 【 以下文字转载自 Living 讨论区 】
发信人: fku0000 (fku), 信区: Living
标 题: NYT: "Amid Housing Bust, Phoenix Begins a New Frenzy"
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat May 23 20:58:05 2009)
this is a nice article about investors buying up low-end foreclosed or
near-foreclosure properties in one of the hardest hit market.
isn't greed good? :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/business/24phoenix.html?hp |
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发帖数: 7881 | 22 int findMedian (int[] A, int[] B) {
int aLen = A.length;
int bLen= B.length;
if (aLength+bLength % 2 == 0) {
return (helper(A, B, (aLen+bLen)/2, 0, aLen, 0, bLen) +
helper(A, B, (aLen+bLen)/2-1, 0, aLen, 0, bLen))/2;
}
else {
return helper(A, B, (aLen+bLen)/2, 0, aLen, 0, bLen);
}
}
int helper (int[] A, int[] B, int k, int aStart, int aEnd, int bstart, int
bEnd) {
int aLen = aEnd-aStart+1;
int bLen = bEnd-bStart+1;
if (a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 67 | 23 int a[maxn],b[maxn];
int find(int aleft,int aright,int bleft,int bright,int k) {
if ((aright-aleft+1)+(bright-bleft+1)
cout<<"error"<
return 0;
}
if (aleft>aright)
return b[bleft+k-1];
if (bleft>bright)
return a[aleft+k-1];
int amid=(aleft+aright)>>1;
int bmid=(bleft+bright)>>1;
if (a[amid]<=b[bmid])
if (k<=(amid-aleft)+(bmid-bleft)+1)
return find(aleft,aright,bleft,bmid-1,k);
else
retu... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****7
发帖数: 8463 | 24 美国和北约群殴俄罗斯
1.
http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/Military/41214611.html
发信人: unceasing (老母鸡和鸡蛋), 信区: Military
标 题: 补丁大帝双拳难敌四手，好汉架不住人多
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Mar 5 18:51:53 2014, 美东)
补丁大帝双拳难敌四手，好汉架不住人多, 要被唾沫星子淹死了
要被唾沫星子淹死了
2.
Big power talks on Ukraine crisis make little progress
Mar 5th 2014 5:47PM
PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 05: US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a
press conference at the US embassy on March 05, 2014 in Paris, France.
Negotiations between US Secretary of State John Kerry and ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2918 | 25 News Headlines
Back to Headlines
OIL FALLS AMID WARNINGS OF RETREAT TO $40 ON ROCKY REBALANCE
By Heesu Lee and Stephen Stapczynski - Fri, 15 Jul 2016 01:58:53 GMT
(Bloomberg) -- Oil fell amid forecasts prices may slide toward $40 a barrel
as consumption falters and halted supplies return.
Futures fell as much as 1.4 percent, paring a 2.1 percent gain Thursday.
Analysts from BNP Paribas SA to JBC Energy GmbH warned prices may sink
towards $40 a barrel amid a global glut of supply and weakening de... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 26 Dylan McGrath
10/1/2012 1:11 PM EDT
IHS iSuppli slashes sales forecast amid high prices, lack of effective
market SAN FRANCISCO—Ultrabook sales are falling short of expectations amid
high pricing and lack of effective marketing, according to market research
firm IHS iSuppli, which cut its forecast for 2012 sales of the ultra-thin,
low-power notebook PCs.
IHS (El Segundo, Calif.) estimates that 10.3 million Ultrabooks will ship
this year, down from a previous forecast of 22 million. More than hal... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 27 Retail Apocalypse: 23 big retailers closing stores
Some of the United States' most prominent retailers are shuttering
stores in recent months amid sagging sales in the troubled sector.
The rise of ecommerce outlets like Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) has made it harder
for traditional retailers to attract customers to their stores and forced
companies to change their sales strategies. Many companies have turned to
sales promotions and increased digital efforts to lure shoppers while
shutting down brick-an... 阅读全帖 |
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W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 28 Serbia And Hungary's Use Of 'China Card' Amid COVID-19 Crisis
April 02, 2020 15:06 GMT
By Nevena Bogdanovic
Andy Heil
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (without mask) welcomes Chinese health
experts and a planeload of medical supplies to Belgrade on March 21.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (without mask) welcomes Chinese health
experts and a planeload of medical supplies to Belgrade on March 21.
BELGRADE -- Influential former UN and European envoy to the Balkans Carl
Bildt has unloaded a to... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 29 35 killed, 42 injured in Shanghai stampede
December 31, 2014 - 7:05 PM
Associated Press
SHANGHAI (AP) — Thirty-five people died in a stampede during New Year's
celebrations in downtown Shanghai, city officials said — the worst disaster
to hit one of China's showcase cities in recent years.
A Shanghai government statement said another 42 people were injured amid the
chaos about a half-hour before midnight.
The deaths and injuries occurred at Shanghai's popular riverfront Bund area,
which can be j... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2 | 30 试着写了一下，好像可以，没有仔细测试。
public class FindKthFromTwoArray{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int[] a = {2,4,6,7,8,10,19,20,24,98};
int[] b = {2,5,15,18,27,34,56,67,100,140};
// int[] a = {2,4,19,29,39,49,59};
// int[] b = {1,5,6,7,12,29,30,33,45,67,78};
// int[] a = {2};
// int[] b = {1};
int k = 16;
int result = FindKthFromTwoArray.findKth(a,b,k);
System.out.println("The kth number is: " + result);
}
p... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: 上海外滩庆祝新年活动死亡35人
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Dec 31 19:45:06 2014, 美东)
35 killed, 42 injured in Shanghai stampede
December 31, 2014 - 7:05 PM
Associated Press
SHANGHAI (AP) — Thirty-five people died in a stampede during New Year's
celebrations in downtown Shanghai, city officials said — the worst disaster
to hit one of China's showcase cities in recent years.
A Shanghai government statement said another 42 people were injured amid the
chaos abo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 32 You say, "你跟本不用查找专业文献，反渗透膜是porous 的高分子材料，有点高分子
物理知识的人都知道温度降低，高分子链的热物理性能和构型会发生改变，这样膜的孔
径就会收缩，透水率就会明显降低."
In the primary school, we learn that if we heat a metal with a hole, the
hole will be bigger. Search the Web, with the terms (metal hole heat).
What is used in reverse osmosis (RO) is not metal but polymer. Thus there is
nothing intuitive about how pore will behaves. Indeed emperically there are
two types of pores in a RO membrane.
(1) That temperature affects membrane permeability is a fact. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10330 | 33 China Reserves Post First Gain Since June Amid Capital Curbs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-07/china-fx-reserves-rise-
first-time-since-june-amid-capital-curbs
China’s foreign-currency reserves unexpectedly halted a seven-month losing
streak, rising in February amid tighter controls on capital outflows and a
rally in the yuan.
The stockpile increased by $6.9 billion to $3.005 trillion last month, the
People’s Bank of China said Tuesday. That exceeded the $2.969 trillion
estimate... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4453 | 34 India building up troops, supplies along border amid Doklam stand off,
alleges China
Reuters
August 4, 2017 Last Updated at 10:14 IST
China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday said India has been building up troops
and repairing roads along its side of the border amid an increasingly tense
stand-off in a remote frontier region beside the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan.
The stand-off on a plateau next to the mountainous Indian state of Sikkim,
which borders China, has ratcheted up tension between the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 35 Polls open in Venezuela as Maduro seeks reelection
Mariano Castillo-Profile-Image
Marilia Brocchetto, Senior News Editor, International Desk
By Mariano Castillo and Marilia Brocchetto, CNN
Updated 1215 GMT (2015 HKT) May 20, 2018
A man walks past graffiti in support of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,
A man walks past graffiti in support of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro,
(CNN)Polls opened in Venezuela on Sunday for the nation's presidential
election.
President Nicolas Maduro is seeking... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 36 Latest News
Nov. 22, 2013: Prison for a State Chemist Who Faked Drug Evidence, New York
Times
Nov. 22, 2013: Annie Dookhan, former state chemist who mishandled drug
evidence, sentenced to 3 to 5 years in prison, Boston Globe
October 29, 2013: Date Set For Dookhan To Change Plea, WBUR
October 18, 2013: Annie Dookhan's attorney pushes for 1-year sentence,
Boston Globe
Aug. 20, 2013: Annie Dookhan, alleged rogue state chemist, may have affected
more than 40,000 people's cases, review finds, Boston ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 37 周日，美国驱逐舰进入南海南沙岛礁12海里！
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/30/politics/us-sails-south-china-sea/index.
html
US Navy sails past contested islands in South China Sea amid U.S.-China
tensions
(CNN) — The United States sailed a warship close to disputed islands in the
South China Sea on Sunday, a move that is bound to draw the ire of Beijing
and comes amid heightened US-China tensions over a broad range of issues.
Two US officials told CNN that the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur
sailed within 12 na... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 38 https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/30/politics/us-sails-south-china-sea/index.
html
US Navy sails past contested islands in South China Sea amid U.S.-China
tensions
(CNN) — The United States sailed a warship close to disputed islands in the
South China Sea on Sunday, a move that is bound to draw the ire of Beijing
and comes amid heightened US-China tensions over a broad range of issues.
Two US officials told CNN that the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur
sailed within 12 nautical miles of Gaven ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 39 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/14/white-house-limits-peter-navarros-role-amid-
china-trade-clash-with-larry-kudlow.html
White House curtails Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro's public role as
Larry Kudlow rips him for comments on China talks
The Trump administration has deliberately curtailed trade advisor Peter
Navarro's public role amid tensions with top economic advisor Larry Kudlow,
a source said.
Kudlow criticized Navarro's comments on ongoing trade negotiations with
China.
President Donald T... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 Greek police detained four suspected terrorists in Athens on Saturday over
alleged links to a Islamist terror plot in Belgium amid heightened anti-
terror efforts across Europe, The Associated Press reported.
Greek police told The Associated Press that four terrorism suspects had been
arrested separately in Athens and initially said that the arrests included
a man who matched the description of the suspect Belgian authorities believe
was behind a jihadi cell that was dismantled in Belgium on Thu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 43 Abedin implicated Clinton in foundation trade-off with Morocco amid $12
million commitment
By Ed Henry Published October 20, 2016 FoxNews.com
Just hours after Hillary Clinton dodged a question at the final presidential
debate about charges of "pay to play" at the Clinton Foundation, a new
batch of WikiLeaks emails surfaced with stunning charges that the candidate
herself was at the center of negotiating a $12 million commitment from King
Mohammed VI of Morocco.
One of the more remarkable parts o... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 44 Report: Twitter Planning Hundreds of Layoffs amid Financial Difficulty
Twitter is set to announce hundreds of job losses this week amid a period of
deep instability for the company, according to a report from Bloomberg.
The company is reportedly set to cut over 300 jobs, comprising 8% of its
total workforce, in an attempt to further retrench and restructure its
floundering business model, insiders have revealed.
The news of job losses is expected to come before Twitter announces their
third quar... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24733 | 45 Pence plays Trump's loyal VP across Midwest, amid White House controversies
Vice President Pence kept a busy Saturday while President Trump was overseas
, espousing the president's leadership in a college commencement speech and
urging Americans to thank U.S. military personnel.
“If you see a member of the Armed Forces on Armed Forces Day … reach out
and say, 'Thank you for your service,' " Pence said at Wright Patterson Air
Force Base, in Ohio.
“I couldn’t be more proud to work for a president ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24733 | 46 这TMD说的是人话吗？哈哈哈“You can’t just come to Canada and cross the
border and stay there for the rest of your life,” Pablo Rodriguez, a member
of the Canadian Parliament and a government envoy to the U.S., told the Los
Angeles Times. “We want to avoid a humanitarian crisis along the border.”
Amid growing US immigration crackdown, Canada quietly enforcing own laws
Amid an ongoing illegal immigration crackdown in the United States and the
Trump administration's hardline rhetoric, Canadian officials fear m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2136 | 47 Global warming summit heads for failure amid snub by world leaders
World leaders have snubbed the next round of international climate change
negotiations in Mexico next month amid fears the talks will collapse.
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent
Published: 3:04PM BST 10 Oct 2010
Telegraph.co.uk
The climate change conference in the Spring break resort of Cancun seems
unlikely to be as much fun Photo: REUTERS
The last United Nations summit on global warming in Copenhagen, at the end
of la... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6125 | 48 英文原文:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-14/risk-of-10-stock-sl
Risk of 10% Stock Slide Tripled in a Month, Goldman Says
March 14, 2011, 6:23 PM EDT
By Jeff Kearns and Cecile Vannucci
(Updates with closing levels in second paragraph.)
March 14 (Bloomberg) -- The risk of a 10 percent U.S. stock slide by April
tripled in a month, options prices show, amid rising oil prices that
threaten the economic recovery and Japan’s biggest earthquake, Goldman
Sachs Group Inc. said.
Standard & Poor’s 500... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1972 | 49 Stocks added to their gains Friday on the heels of a handful of robust
earnings reports and amid optimism over the euro zone ahead of the EU summit
on Sunday.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied sharply, led by Disney [DIS 34.82
0.98 (+2.9%) ] and AmEx [AXP 47.45 1.26 (+2.73%) ], after
logging a decline in the previous session. The blue-chip index is on track
for its fourth-straight winning week.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also jumped. The CBOE Volatility Index, widely
conside... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2844 | 50 China will work toward bolstering global economic growth in 2013, President
Hu Jintao said in a New Year’s Eve address, amid optimism that a recovery
in the world’s second-biggest economy is gaining traction.
The nation will “step up efforts to promote strong, sustainable and
balanced growth in the world economy,” Hu said in the speech broadcast by
state radio and television. China achieved stable economic development in
2012 and will seek to do the same this year while making restructuring of
i... 阅读全帖 |
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