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发帖数: 4110 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 PDA 讨论区 】
发信人: ThetaWave (Theta), 信区: PDA
标 题: The Land That Failed to Fail - The New York Times
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 18 23:13:40 2018, 美东)
A "good" piece from NYT...
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China now leads the world in the number of homeowners, internet users,
college graduates and, by some counts, billionaires. Extreme poverty has
fallen to less than 1 percent. An isolated, impoverished backwater has
evolved into the most significant rival to the United States since the fall
of the Soviet Union.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 2 国际顶级期刊《Nature》杂志官网，9月25日，发布了一篇文章，头版头条批评中国政
府这么多年的治沙努力，报道称中国西北荒漠绿化可能导致水资源枯竭——
“China's tree-planting drive could falter in a warming world”
副标题是：
“Researchers warn that the country's push to hold back its deserts
could strain water resources.”
原文在这里：
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02789-w?sf219917843=1
The trees have held back China′s deserts. But some scientists worry
that the planting could worsen water scarcity. Many of the trees are not
native to the regions where they have b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2047 | 3 Democrats on Capitol Hill fear Obama fallout, start to distance themselves
from Obama
By Andrew Ward in Washington
Published: September 11 2008 23:30 | Last updated: September 11 2008 23:30
Quote:
Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol
Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s
faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election.
Party leaders have been hoping to strengthen Democratic control of the House
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发帖数: 6327 | 4 RNC out of Wisconsin, Maine; focuses on red states
by The Associated Press
Wednesday October 15, 2008, 12:28 PM
WASHINGTON -- The Republican National Committee is halting presidential ads
in Wisconsin and Maine, turning its attention primarily to usually
Republican states where GOP nominee John McCain shows signs of faltering.
The party's independent ad operation is doubling its budget to about $10
million and focusing on crucial states such as Colorado, Missouri, Indiana
and Virginia where Demo |
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发帖数: 10345 | 5 California's small business owners plan layoffs and furloughs if they're
saddled with hard-to-redeem IOUs.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- As if struggling to stay afloat during a
faltering economy isn't difficult enough, hundreds of small business vendors
that rely on contracts with California are facing another hurdle: There's a
good chance the state won't be paying any of their invoices this month.
After the state legislature failed to agree on budget solutions earlier this
month to close a $26 bi |
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发帖数: 5601 | 6 Globe endorsement: Martha Coakley for Senate
People in Massachusetts are understandably frustrated. Next week's special
election comes in the midst of a too-long Senate debate on health care,
showcasing much of what is offensive about the rules of the Senate. The fact
that a final bill hasn't even emerged has left many people ready to toss
away the whole thing. Stir in the anxiety that comes with a still-faltering
economy, and voters are angry.
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发帖数: 29846 | 8 http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/american-narcissus_516686.html
American Narcissus
The vanity of Barack Obama
Nov 13, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 • By JONATHAN V. LAST
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发帖数: 29846 | 9 Published on TheHill.com on December 7, 2010
Republicans gnashed their teeth in frustration as the national tide of GOP
resurgence washed up against the massive Democratic fortresses in Nevada,
Washington state, Colorado and California. When they neither toppled nor
faltered, most conservatives resigned themselves to a divided Congress with
the Republican House and the Democratic Senate forever at war.
Not so. The vote on the extension of the Bush tax cuts reveals that the
Republican Party has, ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 10 民主党控制的伊利诺伊州国会通过加税法案，个人所得税增加67%，商业收入税增加46%
Quinn congratulates Democrats on income tax increase
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Posted by Ray Long and Monique Garcia at 2:15 a.m.
A triumphant Gov. Pat Quinn congratulated fellow Democrats early today after
the Illinois Senate and House sent him a major income tax increase without
a single Republican vote in favor.
Quinn smiled and shook hands on the floor of the Senate around 1:30 a.m.
after the Senate voted 30-29 for the bill, which would raise the personal
income tax-r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 11 Posted by Michael Avitablile
Published: February 9, 2011 - 6:05 AM
Cross-Posted at Pundit Press:
By now the comparison between President Barack Obama and former-President
Jimmy Carter is well established. Both Presidents came to power only after
the overhyped "death" of the Republican Party in 1976 and 2008, both
Presidents had promised renewed peace and talks with our chief (which both
failed), and under both Presidents, the economy faltered.
Yet, with uprisings in Egypt sweeping their nation,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 12 Posted by Michael Laprarie
Published: June 21, 2011 - 9:00 AM
Lately, there's been lots of talk about the faltering state of our economy.
It's certainly the single biggest failure of the Obama Administration, and,
consequently, the single biggest weakness for candidate Obama in the 2012
presidential election.
But it's not the only one. If you are a blog reader, you are no doubt aware
of the implosion of "Operation Fast and Furious", in which the ATF and
Justice Departments worked together to al... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 13 Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the race for the GOP
presidential nomination on Sunday, hours after finishing a disappointing
third in the Iowa straw poll.
"I wish it would have been different. But obviously the pathway forward for
me doesn't really exist so we are going to end the campaign," Pawlenty said
on ABC's "This Week" from Iowa shortly after disclosing his plans in a
private conference call with supporters.
The low-key Midwesterner and two-term governor had struggled t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4412 | 14 Solyndra bankruptcy
Why Solyndra didn't give a 60-day WARN Act notice
San Francisco Business Times
Date: Friday, September 2, 2011, 7:01am PDT
Employees at Solyndra Inc. weren’t given 60 days notice about their
impending layoffs as required by both federal and state law because the
company was scrambling to stay alive, a spokesman said.
Under federal and state legislation called the Worker Adjustment and
Retraining Notification Act — or WARN Act, employers must give 60 days
notice when making... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 15 Saturday, 28 Jan 2012 08:46 PM
By Martin Gould and Dave Eberhart
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain endorsed Newt Gingrich
for the GOP nomination late on Saturday — at the same time accepting a
position as the former House speaker’s tax reform chairman.
The author of the now-famous 9-9-9 tax plan announced his endorsement in
West Palm Beach, Fla., three days ahead of that state’s vital primary. The
endorsement is a welcome boost for Gingrich, who has found himself having to
def... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 16 A news radio talkshow.
Hosts talked about buffoon like Odumba whose academic records never
got exposed - while media kept quiet on the issues. Guess the records
would reveal Odumba was a foreign student from Dumbland Africa.
Then this guy called in, apparently sounding "black". He asked hosts
to give President some respect...... whoa, they are begging for respect.
He forgot to mention his skillsets in the field of class war waging.
All he put in his speech, as funny as it sounded today but excit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4321 | 17 http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/oct/08/
Obama sounded the alarm on subprimes
Share this story:
As the U.S. and world economic systems continue to falter, both Sens. John
McCain and Barack Obama claim to have seen the crisis coming to some degree,
and tried to head it off.
McCain has cited his endorsement of legislation in 2006 that would have
reined in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac somewhat. And at the second
presidential debate, Obama cited a letter he wrote to federal offi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 Canada is on track to be one of the few G20 nations not offering a specific
amount to the International Monetary Fund as it tries to raise at least $430
-billion to draw on in case any members need a financial rescue.
But Mr. Harper isn’t budging as he carves out an agenda directly opposite
to those of the high-debt governments of Europe. He chose Davos earlier this
year to announce a long-term economic plan that includes raising the
eligibility age for Old Age Security, partly to contrast Canad... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, Associated Press
July 2, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in
nearly three years, adding to signs that economic growth is weakening.
Production declined, and the number of new orders plunged, according to a
monthly report released Monday by the Institute for Supply Management.
The slowdown comes as U.S. employers have scaled back hiring, consumers have
turned more cautious, Europe faces a recession and manufacturing has slowe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3803 | 20 到底不是他自己写的，真不错，全是丫做不到的。
Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
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Following is the transcript of President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address,
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发帖数: 4321 | 22 t-bags never believe report. they don't care |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 Chief among them is that he’s uninterested in actually striking up
relationships and working with others. He’s so caught up in his own hype
that he’s convinced he doesn’t have to do the hard work of relating to
other politicians. Bob Woodward’s new book “The Price of Politics,”
details last summers debt ceiling negotiations went off track and how
members of Congress in both parties eventually tired of the President’s
royal flair. ABC notes:
Woodward places particular blame for the failure to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 Fed Pulls Trigger, to Buy Mortgages in Effort to Lower Rates
Published: Thursday, 13 Sep 2012 | 3:35 PM ET
The Federal Reserve fulfilled expectations of more stimulus for the
faltering economy, taking aim now at driving down mortgage rates until an
improvement in unemployment that the central bank says will be a problem for
several years.
The Fed said it will buy $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities per month
in an attempt to foster a nascent recovery in the real estate market.
The p... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 25 he s afraid the left wing community would not come out vote for him as
enthusiastically as 4 years ago.
in 2008, the situation was that the entire left wing was super hyper exited
for Obama. So he did not have to cater too much to GLBT. As a result, he
played the religion card to please the center.
This time around, many in his base are not as happy as in O8, so he had to
dangle something out.
Just like in 08, the illegal issue was an concern so he promised and did
deport a lot of illegals. But ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 26 Posted by Bryan Jacoutot Monday, October 29, 2012 at 1:01pm
A new Boston Globe poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey
Center shows Scott Brown is making a successful October push in
Massachusetts to keep his seat in the United States Senate. The Globe now
has Brown leading 47-45.
The poll is a reversal from a September Globe survey that showed Warren
ahead 43 percent to 38 percent, as well as several other recent polls that
have found Warren with a slight lead. The shift... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 27 let s look at some selected issues:
1. IRS targeting of political foe, now with one of the political appointees
implicated. Who else wanted to use IRS to attack enemies? right, Nixon did,
but his IRS head had the integrity to say NO. Plus the cover up.
2. the NSA spying program which get again conveniently blame onto the Bush
administration during the 2nd term of the current admin. Of course the
current head of the admin fiercely attacked the Bush for violating liberty
during elections. NSA+IRS,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 U.S. Rice Farmers Cash In On Venezuelan Socialism
U.S. Exporters Benefit as Production Falls in Latin American Country.
By SARA SCHAEFER MUÑOZ
U.S. rice farmers are making large profits from exports to Venezuela, thanks
to the impact of the late President Hugo Chavez's socialist policies. WSJ's
Sara Schaefer Munoz reports.
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STUTTGART, Ark.—Steve Orlicek, a rice farmer here, is living the American
dream. He owns a thriving business; he vacations in the Bahamas.
His good fortune springs from... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 September 18, 2013 by Michael Becker
The President is running around on his latest campaign swing making speeches
about how great a job he’s done on the economy and how much better it
would be if the damn Republicans would just see the light. One of his
favorite things to point out is the Dow Jones Industrials, and they hit a
new high today.
Let me get right down to brass tacks. The economy is in a world of hurt and
the stock market is being propped up by the Federal Reserve and it – along
with... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 By Editorial Board, Published: March 2
FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more on how
he thinks the world should operate than on reality. It was a world in which
“the tide of war is receding” and the United States could, without much
risk, radically reduce the size of its armed forces. Other leaders, in this
vision, would behave rationally and in the interest of their people and the
world. Invasions, brute force, great-power games and shifting alliances —
these were t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 31 中心思想：在任何方面（从经济到军事到社会）美国都麻烦了。
Transcript:
Russia's violation of international law raises a very unpleasant question,
is the USA now incapable of confronting dangerous behavior? The short answer
is no. We can still right wrongs if we have the will. But the stark truth
is America is getting weaker on almost every front.
Let's start with economics. During President Obama's five years in office,
median income for Americans has dropped about seven percent -- that's big --
because while prices and taxe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10729 | 32 中心思想：在任何方面（从经济到军事到社会）美国都麻烦了。
Transcript:
Russia's violation of international law raises a very unpleasant question,
is the USA now incapable of confronting dangerous behavior? The short answer
is no. We can still right wrongs if we have the will. But the stark truth
is America is getting weaker on almost every front.
Let's start with economics. During President Obama's five years in office,
median income for Americans has dropped about seven percent -- that's big --
because while prices and taxe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 33 By Jim Acosta. Tom Watkins and Kevin Liptak, Tue April 1, 2014
Washington (CNN) -- A last-minute enrollment surge enabled the White House
to meet its original sign-up target for the Affordable Care Act, a
surprising victory for the Obama administration after a rocky rollout of the
program that has become a political hot potato for Democrats and a rallying
cry for Republicans.
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that 7.1 million people had signed up
on federal or state exchanges for coverage u... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7463 | 34 何止退休金啊
Fed looks at exit fees on bond funds
search it on http://www.ft.com
June 16, 2014 7:35 pm
Fed looks at exit fees on bond funds
By Tom Braithwaite, Tracy Alloway and Michael Mackenzie in New York and Gina
Chon in WashingtonAuthor alerts
Jeremy Stein, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a
discussion at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., U.S., on
Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. Stein said diminishing returns from Fed purchases
of Treasury securities indicate the central ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 House nearing vote on 1-year package of tax breaks
December 1, 2014 - 3:05 PM
By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving to pass a one-year extension
of temporary tax breaks affecting millions of businesses and individuals.
Most of the more than 50 tax breaks expired at the end of 2013, so the
extension would only run through the end of the month. However, it would
allow taxpayers to claim the tax breaks when they file their 2014 tax
returns.
The tax b... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3656 | 36 yes, there is no question about this.
when a man is young or poor, he wants the authority to protect him and help
him.
when he accumulates an initial amount of wealth, he wants the authority to
be let him be. let his wealth compound forward with low taxation and leave
all the opportunities unfettered in front of him.
when in the small chance that he accumulates a large amount of wealth, or
gained political power, so much so that he can affect the authority's
decisions, he wants the authority to ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 494 | 37 EYES ON IOWA: EMERSON COLLEGE POLL REVEALS TRUMP AND CLINTON
SURGE 10 DAYS BEFORE THE CAUCUS. CRUZ AND SANDERS FALTERING AT
FINISH.
In a new, statewide Iowa poll, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have surged
to 9 and 10
point leads in Iowa with just 10 days before the first in the nation voting
begins. Clinton receives 52% of the vote and Sanders at 43%.
Trump leads his Republican rivals with 33%, followed by Ted Cruz at 23%,
Marco Rubio (14%), and Ben Carson (9%) round out
the top four with the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 38 by Jeff Graham via Mayor Graham's View
Call it choke, or nerves, but Senator Marco Rubio confirmed what
many have suspected and that is he is a robotic and shallow candidate not
ready to lead his party in the race for the White House.
Under a withering cross from Governor Chris Christie, the witness
cracked, with Senator Rubio repeating four times a memorized diatribe
against President Obama.
Suddenly 'big mo' abndoned the third place Iowa finisher and the talk
till Tuesday w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2215 | 39 the resulting deer in the headlights stare
LOL
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发帖数: 29576 | 40 机器人在老窝如果成第三就彻底out了，得脸皮多厚才想撑到开党代会。
Cruz is tentatively planning his own multi-day trip to Florida next week,
according to a second Cruz source, potentially hoping to knock Rubio out of
the race entirely. How much time and money Cruz devotes to Florida would be
contingent on whether Rubio falters badly in the states such as Kansas,
Louisiana and Kentucky that vote over the weekend, and then again on March 8
, when Mississippi, Michigan, Idaho and Hawaii cast ballots.
“A weakened Marco Rubio gives ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5309 | 41 ...Recognizing that Mr. Trump has seized a formidable advantage in the race,
they say that an effort to block him would rely on an array of desperation
measures, the political equivalent of guerrilla fighting.
There is no longer room for error or delay, the anti-Trump forces say, and
without a flawlessly executed plan of attack, he could well become
unstoppable.
But should that effort falter, leading conservatives are prepared to field
an independent candidate in the general election, to defend ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2239 | 42 zt
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Last night a friend claimed that Donald Trump wouldn’t make a good
president; he is brash, he is racist, he is a loudmouth; you know the normal
things people learn to recite after being programmed by television news.
The one I loved was that, “Trump is arrogant.” My friend questioned if one
man could make “that much difference in the world today.” To my friend’s
credit, she was respectful enough to let me respond when she asked, “
Really, what has Trump done?”
I... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 897 | 43 After building his campaign platform on the promise of more jobs in America,
a company that Donald Trump urged customers to boycott is now laying off
more than 10,000 employees.
Macy's announced earlier this week that it will be cutting some 10,100 jobs
—3,900 are store associates from locations that will be closing as part of
a 100-store reduction for the 728-unit chain. An additional 6,200 employees
will be let go as the $27.1 billion department store strives to reduce its
annual costs by $550... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 44 When all others faltered, WE stood with Trump! |
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发帖数: 1 | 45 民主党左派才是真正on the record说中国人是间谍的人
这几天美国华人在谈没有任何证据的所谓的川普说华人是“间谍”的谣言, 连黑川普最
卖力的CNN都只是说是some students areforeign agents。
”中国留学生都是间谍“显然是100%的假新闻了。连CNN都不好意思报道了 。 CNN的报
道的是这样的： Trump expressed concern that some foreign students were
acting as foreign agents, particularly from China, according to one of the
attendees.
说到黑川普最卖力的主流媒体，CNN算第二，没有人敢说自己是第一吧。就这么黑川普
卖力的主流媒体都不敢说川普说了所有中国人是间谍。
黑人在YouTube上号召抢中国人，民主党欧巴马说是言论自由。
民主党左派的外围组织宣传部 NBC Jimmy Kimmel show 说要杀光中国人
民主党的希拉里说要Hunt Chinese
其实真正有记录的说中国来美留学生是间谍的，是民主党左... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4110 | 46 【 以下文字转载自 PDA 讨论区 】
发信人: ThetaWave (Theta), 信区: PDA
标 题: The Land That Failed to Fail - The New York Times
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Nov 18 23:13:40 2018, 美东)
A "good" piece from NYT...
.......
China now leads the world in the number of homeowners, internet users,
college graduates and, by some counts, billionaires. Extreme poverty has
fallen to less than 1 percent. An isolated, impoverished backwater has
evolved into the most significant rival to the United States since the fall
of the Soviet Union.... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 47 *** 问题回顾：
某则新闻标题（大意）：Resign or be impeached？ Trump has a tough decision to
make. 本版经济学专家、英文版维基词条编辑回答说：Either one, I'm
fine with President Pence. 本版洗碗工说：这里应该用 either way。专家不信，三
番五次出示某截图，坚称他绝对没错，并嘲笑洗碗工英文烂。
*** 好吧，既然如此，洗碗工就耗尽毕生功力，解答如下：
专家，既然你喜欢用 Ludwig.guru 网站学习英文，我就从那里抄来 14 个例句，列
在帖子最后。前面 1-7 就是你反复贴的那个图里面一模一样的例句，是 either one
的使用范例；后面 8-14 是 either way 的使用范例。
8-14（除了 11）可以看出，either way 是一个副词片语，它的位置一定是在句首或句
尾，用来修饰全句。而 either one 则是一个名词片语，当作主词或及物动词的受词（
大陆人称宾语）等等。在你的句子里，明显你是想要用一个副词片语，来修饰全句。所
以即使从文法与词性... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17544 | 48 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: EUV (奶特都是卖国贼), 信区: Military
标 题: 读书了，警察与赞美诗
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 21 17:26:50 2011, 美东)
On his bench in Madison Square Soapy moved uneasily. When wild geese honk
high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their
husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may
know that winter is near at hand.
A dead leaf fell in Soapy's lap. That was Jack Frost's card. Jack is kind to
the regular denizens of Madison Square, and giv... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 26623 | 49 GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda and Nissan all reported double-digit sales
gains last month. Of major automakers, only Volkswagen had a down month.
Its sales were off 3.3 percent as the top-selling Jetta compact faltered. |
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发帖数: 3577 | 50 【 以下文字转载自 Stock 讨论区 】
发信人: dmjz (东门虎西门豹), 信区: Stock
标 题: The Year the Hedge-Fund Model Stalled on Main Street
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Dec 30 21:38:33 2015, 美东)
The Year the Hedge-Fund Model Stalled on Main Street
By Sarah Krouse
Dec. 30, 2015 6:59 p.m. ET
Enthusiasm is fading for what had become one of the hottest products in
asset management
It is getting a lot harder to sell hedge-fund-style investing to the masses.
More “liquid alternative” mutual funds closed in 2015 than in any year on
record,... 阅读全帖 |
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