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发帖数: 60932 | 2 7.3 Cu. Ft. Stackable Electric Dryer (White)
Steam Refresh and Steam WrinkleCare cycles infuses clothes with steam to
reduce wrinkles, remove odors, and refresh clothing
Wrinkle prevent option intermittently tumbles clothes at the end of the
drying cycle to help prevent wrinkles from setting in
Stainless steel drum prevents rusting and discoloration
Drying rack provides tumble free drying
Free shipping
Link:
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发帖数: 3386 | 4 Stocks, Euro Plunge on Concern Austerity Plans to Curb Recovery
By Will McSheehy and Shani Raja
May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks fell the most since Feb. 5, the cost of
insuring bonds from default jumped and the euro dropped to its lowest
against the dollar since 2006 on concern European austerity measures will
derail the economic recovery.
The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dived 2.5 percent to 117.05 at 12 p.m. in Tokyo,
the Markit iTraxx Asia index of credit-default swaps climbed 10 basis
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发帖数: 6973 | 7 (1) Joanne Chiu and Kate O'Keeffe, Buffett-Backed China Venture Falters.
Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142
4052702304450604576415082507001662.html
Quote:
"China car and battery maker BYD Co. said its first-quarter profit fell 84%
from a year earlier, dragged lower by weaker sales * * * its profit for the
three months ended March 31 fell to 266.7 million yuan (US$41.2 million)
from 1.7 billion yuan a year earlier.
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发帖数: 26355 | 8 Green hills lie beyond the northern city walls.
Surrounding the east side are white waterfalls.
From this scenery spot you are about to depart,
Like a tumbling weed traveling thousands miles afar.
Drifting clouds represent the traveler's mindset.
But our friendship is eternal, just like the sunset.
We waive our hands as you are on your way.
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发帖数: 5601 | 9 “It's gotten insane,” said Scott Simon, the head of mortgage-backed
securities at Newport Beach, California-based Pacific Investment Management
Co., manager of the world's biggest bond fund. “This is rarefied air.”
U.S. existing home sales unexpectedly fell last month and purchases of new
houses tumbled to a record low, underscoring how borrowers' ability to
qualify for financing is limited even as rates drop. Bond prices show
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发帖数: 4902 | 11 无产阶级VS资产阶级贵族
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/opinion/27herbert.html?hp
ovember 26, 2010
Winning the Class War
By BOB HERBERT
The class war that no one wants to talk about continues unabated.
Even as millions of out-of-work and otherwise struggling Americans are
tightening their belts for the holidays, the nation’s elite are lacing up
their dancing shoes and partying like royalty as the millions and billions
keep rolling in.
Recessions are for the little people, not for the corporate chiefs and... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 12 以下是读者对本文的评论: (有美国人,也有欧洲人和加拿大人)
Below is a selection of your comments
No wonder it is so difficult to get the USA to reduce their carbon
footprint with such nonsense as this enshrined in law! Having washing drying
outside can enhance neighbourly relationships, as you watch out for each
others lines when it might rain, and fetch the things in for the neighbour
if it does. Add on the environmental impact of all those unnecessary dryers,
the fact that clothes smell so much better and take far le... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 13 Your parents are not alone. 不少人同Mvwd的父母有相同的看法.
'I must fight back'
Wei Wang (above) a 49-year-old mother-of-three in Maryland, is continuing to hang out her washing, despite the threat of legal action.
"Energy savings and reducing pollution is more important, so I think I
should stand up and fight back. I grew up in China and I was taught by my mother to use this method all the time.
"I've lived in Europe too, and it's only Americans that don't like clothes lines."
'Prudery plays a part'
Austral... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5601 | 14 哈哈哈哈, 这绝对不是美国的传统文化. 事实上, 在上世纪60年代之前, 美国人在自家
后院晾衣服, 是司空见惯的现象.
直到上世纪60-70年代, 烘干机(tumble dryers)在美国家庭普及了, 这才有了不许户外
晾衣服的禁令. 你能说这是“美国文化”吗?
下图是50年代一个美国家庭妇女在后院晾衣服的照片.
http://photovalet.com/PDLV01P09_16.html
在国的文化，虽然你可以认为这样不合理。一个城市、一个社区，都有自己的规章和约
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发帖数: 19737 | 15 How Germany Became the China of Europe
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2053595,00.htm
There is no particularly special technology needed to make a chainsaw. It's
really just plastic and metal parts screwed together with old-fashioned nuts
and bolts. The Chinese already make chainsaws. But that hasn't stopped
German power-tool manufacturer Stihl from selling its made-in-Germany
chainsaws around the world, even though its top-end models are among the
priciest on the market. In fac... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8308 | 16 EU’s Oettinger Channeling Media Reports on Japan Rattles Market
March 16, 2011, 1:43 PM EDT
By Jonathan Stearns
March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Investors on edge over the prospect of a Japanese
nuclear meltdown took their cue from a European Union commissioner who
proclaimed a “major disaster” may be on its way, before admitting his
remarks were partly based on media reports.
U.S. stocks tumbled after EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger
testified to a European Parliament committee today in Brussel... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 36302 | 17 China Inflation Is `Somewhat Out of Control’ on Weak Currency, Soros Says
By John Detrixhe - Apr 11, 2011 8:32 AM CT
inShare.47More
-- Billionaire investor George Soros talks about China's economic growth
and inflation. Soros also discusses the European Central Bank's decision to
raise its benchmark interest rate and the U.S. dollar. He speaks with
Michael McKee and Sara Eisen at the Bretton Woods conference in New
Hampshire on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." Bloomberg's Matt Miller
als... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 18 http://www.economist.com/node/18586448
Africans are asking whether China is making their lunch or eating it
ZHU LIANGXIU gulps down Kenyan lager in a bar in Nairobi and recites a
Chinese aphorism: “One cannot step into the same river twice.” Mr Zhu, a
shoemaker from Foshan, near Hong Kong, is on his second trip to Africa.
Though he says he has come to love the place, you can hear disappointment in
his voice.
On his first trip three years ago Mr Zhu filled a whole notebook with orders
and was sur... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 17544 | 19 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 gives fair warning of his
annual call. At the corners of four streets he hands his pasteboard to the
North Wind, footman of ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7521 | 20 【 以下文字转载自 Stock 讨论区 】
发信人: ubcumn (ubcumn), 信区: Stock
标 题: 希腊1年期国债的利率是 82.1% ！！！
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Sep 6 20:38:59 2011, 美东)
翻番的机会来了 :)) 莫科尔：没有国家会被踢出欧元区（为什么？难道德国想单飞？）
Merkel: Countries will not be kicked out of eurozone
Today @ 09:26
Asian shares on Tuesday tumbled. S&P 500 futures in Asia were off 2.7
percent while Greek one-year bond yields climbed to a record 82.1 percent
and Italy’s ten-year bonds leapt to 5.56 per cent.
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发帖数: 2438 | 21 我家小孩喜欢上图书馆网上看tumble books,就是语音动画故事书，很生动有趣。几年
下来读了很多，识字也比同班孩子多很多。用苹果的不一定听过，因为我的iphone 3和
4就看不了，这一个缺陷让它们变得鸡肋。相反，后来我入手的hd2, infuse,
touchpad 都完美播放。
本来我的iphones 都破解过在微风下了很多apps,功能强大，但我的安猪们竟能下更多
apps，毫不逊色。尤其是infuse, 装上miui之后极为流畅，用户体验把我的iphone4甩
几个大街。
我的iphone4装过破解tomtom离线gps, 勉强能用，相比之下，hd2和infuse上的igo,
navigon都要强太多。即使我的祖母级别wm5手机上garmin也比iphone4强。
电池倒是iphone4可和infuse一比的。iphone4时间短点但有限。
我不是大妈，也不是技工码工geek,我只想手机更好为lp小孩服务。 |
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发帖数: 2438 | 24 我家小孩喜欢上图书馆网上看tumble books,就是语音动画故事书，很生动有趣。几年
下来读了很多，识字也比同班孩子多很多。用苹果的不一定听过，因为我的iphone 3和
4就看不了，这一个缺陷让它们变得鸡肋。相反，后来我入手的hd2, infuse,
touchpad 都完美播放。
本来我的iphones 都破解过在微风下了很多apps,功能强大，但我的安猪们竟能下更多
apps，毫不逊色。尤其是infuse, 装上miui之后极为流畅，用户体验把我的iphone4甩
几个大街。
我的iphone4装过破解tomtom离线gps, 勉强能用，相比之下，hd2和infuse上的igo,
navigon都要强太多。即使我的祖母级别wm5手机上garmin也比iphone4强。
电池倒是iphone4可和infuse一比的。iphone4时间短点但有限。
我不是大妈，也不是技工码工geek,我只想手机更好为lp小孩服务。 |
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发帖数: 12393 | 27 The Uncanny Valley
Masahiro Mori
1970
Energy, 7(4), pp. 33-35
Translated by Karl F. MacDorman and Takashi Minato
Valley of familiarity
There are mathematical functions of the form y = f(x) for which the
value of
y increases (or decreases) continuously with the value of x. For
example,
as the effort x increases, income y increases, or as a car's accelerator
is
pressed, the car moves faster. This kind of relationship is ubiquitous
and
easily understood. In fact, it covers most phenomena, so we mig... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 321 | 28 原文在此，FT记者还真3.19夜里开车到北京各部门转了一圈发现什么事都没有。连法拉利的事都扯上了。
The Financial Times
March 21, 2012 3:25 pm
Beijing on edge amid coup rumours
By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing
The Chinese capital is awash with speculation, innuendo and rumours of a
coup following the most important political purge in decades, with even some
of the most well-informed officials in the dark about what comes next.
Since Bo Xilai, one of China’s most powerful leaders, was removed from his
job last Thursday, the bureaucracy and the publ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1983 | 29 薄熙来（加上周永康？）的败北或许已是定数，不过英文原文已指出是rumor，楼主标题误导，如此急不可耐？！是轮子？嗤笑
原文来源
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/650bb0f6-735f-11e1-aab3-00144feab4
3/21/2012 3:25PM
英文原文
The Chinese capital is awash with speculation, innuendo and rumors of a coup following the most important political purge in decades, with even some of the most well-informed officials in the dark about what comes next.
Since Bo Xilai, one of China’s most powerful leaders, was removed from his job last Thursday, the bureaucracy and the public have ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 637 | 31 ore Mexicans returning home, fewer coming to U.S.
By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY Updated 1h 4m ago
Comments
Reprints & Permissions
Mexican immigration to the United States is on the brink of a historic
reversal: More Mexicans may be going back to Mexico than coming in,
according to a Pew Hispanic Center report Monday.
By Ross D. Franklin, AP
A fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, separating Mexico, right, from Nogales,
Ariz.
Enlarge
By Ross D. Franklin, AP
A fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, separating... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4752 | 32 这里报纸上大量的看到和使用，国内那些白痴英语老师从来不教，考试从来不考，我日
国内
垃圾教育先人板板。
fumble, tumble, ramble, stumble, slump
这里的猥琐男有几个能全部认识？ |
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发帖数: 16484 | 33 洗衣服看标签的人就认识第2个，tumble dry low |
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发帖数: 3812 | 34 I tumbled down here and stumbled upon you fumbling slumpy rambling for
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发帖数: 8594 | 35 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-140th-on-media-f
中国排名173.这个好理解。可是印度，这个世界上最大的民主国家。这个人类的希望，
媒体自由度排名居然是140。难以理解。我所有的信念刹那间全都坍塌了。
LONDON: Increased censorship is crippling India, which has seen the biggest
tumble in Asia in terms of media freedom. India is ranked 140th in the 2013
World Press Freedom Index - its lowest ranking since 2002 - because of an "
increasing impunity for violence against journalists and because internet
censorship continues to grow".
India has slipped nine posi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10330 | 36 Fire on Boeing 787 Dreamliner in London
No Passengers on Jet; Cause of Fire Not Yet Known
Boeing shares tumbled Friday after a fire on board an Ethiopian Airlines 787
Dreamliner jet temporarily closed Heathrow Airport.
By Cassell Bryan-Low, Jon Ostrower
Emergency and fire crews responded Friday afternoon to a fire aboard an
Ethiopian Airlines 787 aircraft at Heathrow Airport, marking a fresh setback
for Boeing Co.’s troubled Dreamliner jet that was grounded by global
regulators earlier this year... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4877 | 37 Boeing 787 Dreamliner catches fire at London Heathrow airport
Heathrow Airport has been closed after an Ethiopian Airlines Dreamliner just
caught fire. A tweet from the airport said the plane was stationary and no
passengers were on board. The cause of the fire is not known.
By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News
LONDON - Boeing's ill-fated 787 Dreamliner was involved in another incident
Friday when a jet caught fire at London's Heathrow airport, forcing the
closure of both runways for m... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3601 | 38 SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) - A Spanish train that hurtled off the
rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so
fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like dominos, killing 80 people,
according to eyewitness accounts and video footage obtained Thursday.
An Associated Press analysis of video images suggests that the train may
have been traveling at twice the speed limit for that stretch of track.
Spain's government said two probes have been launched into the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1320 | 39 克莱斯勒居然是八月份第一大minivan卖家， 呵呵， Town & Country 加Dodge Grand
Caravan 今年到八月底本年度累计已经卖出去超过16万辆， 一个月两万辆，
http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2013/09/usa-minivan-sales-figures-
Minivan Sales Figures In America - August 2013 YTD
By Timothy Cain at 9/04/2013 03:27:00 pm
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook
USA minivan sales chart August 2013
Click Chart For Larger View
The Chrysler Town & Country was America's best-selling minivan in August
2013.
The Chrysler one of only three minivan nameplate... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8613 | 40 这是Shorter Oxford American English Dictionary第五版列出的与德语或者日耳曼语
相关的英语词根或词汇。
-at, suffix2. + -dom, suffix. + -ed, suffix1. + -ed, suffix2. + -en, suffix1
+ -en, suffix2 + -en, suffix5 + -en, suffix6 + -er, suffix1. + -er, suffix3
. + -er, suffix5. + -est, suffix1. + -est, suffix2. + -et, suffix2. + -eth,
suffix1. + -hood, suffix. + -ing, suffix1. + -ing, suffix3. + -ish, suffix1.
+ -kin, suffix. + -le, suffix1 + -le, suffix3 + -less, suffix. + -ling,
suffix1. + -ling, suffix2 + -ly, suffix1. + -ly, s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 41 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-02/gold-holds-above-1-200
Gold futures jumped the most in three weeks on speculation that demand for
bars and jewelry will increase in Asia. Platinum posted the biggest gain in
more than two months.
The premium to take immediate delivery of gold in China was $23 an ounce
today, compared with an average of $16.21 in December and $18.72 for all of
last year, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The Reserve Bank of India on Dec
. 31 eased some controls on imports. ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4265 | 42 Ukraine orders full military mobilisation over Russia moves
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26405635
2 March 2014 Last updated at 16:06
Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded by Russian troops at Perevalnoye, one of
several stand-offs on the peninsula
Russian soldiers surrounded a Ukrainian base at Perevalnoye in Crimea
One pro-Russian family posed for photos with the soldiers
Russian soldiers were apparently digging trenches on the strip of land
joining Crimea to mainland Ukraine
Apparent me... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2883 | 44 重新了解一下美国华人在罪案中的处境，看看这个数据：
从2000到2009，平均每年黑人杀800个白人，白人杀400个黑人。黑人杀白人，占所有谋
杀案的8%，白人杀黑人，占4%。怎么没有看到亚裔被杀的比例数据。有没有人算一算美
国华人亚裔被异族杀的比例。
学会保护自己是硬道理。
Interracial Homicide Rate Growing
http://www.amren.com/news/2012/04/interracial-homicide-rate-gro
Thomas Hargrove, RTV 6, April 20, 2012
{snip}
The rate of interracial murder is growing.
Over the past 30 years, black-on-white murders rose from 6 percent of all
homicides to 8 percent, according to a study of 550,000 homicide reports
assembled by Scripps Howard... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6388 | 45 http://online.wsj.com/articles/japan-economy-contracts-sharply-
TOKYO—Japan's economy contracted sharply in the second quarter after a
sales-tax increase in April sent household spending tumbling, which
economists said could pressure the government to take additional stimulus
measures.
Real gross domestic product, the total value of all goods and services
produced in the economy, shrank 6.8% in the three months through June on an
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发帖数: 1038 | 46 【 以下文字转载自 paladin 讨论区 】
发信人: atack (小军号), 信区: paladin
标 题: 红死病 by 杰克.伦敦
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Oct 11 07:40:15 2014, 美东)
I
The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But
no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled
up the slopes of the embankment and crested across it in a green wave of
trees and bushes. The trail was as narrow as a man's body, and was no more
than a wild-animal runway.
Occasionally, a piece of rusty iron, showing through ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 452 | 47 Why the Drop in Oil Prices Caught So Many by Surprise
By NICOLE FRIEDMAN
Oct. 28, 2014 3:54 p.m. ET
5 COMMENTS
It isn’t just Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs Group Inc. that got it
wrong: Energy consultants and even the U.S. government didn’t foresee the
sharp slide in oil prices, which have tumbled 25% since June.
Goldman shocked the market Monday with a call for U.S. prices to fall to $70
a barrel in the second quarter of 2015. Barclays just released its second
price update in three weeks,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5125 | 48 我兔gdp超美 白人网站一片鬼哭狼嚎 如丧考妣
It's official – America is now No. 2
Chinese economy overtakes U.S. to become world's largest
Published: 16 hours ago
(Marketwatch) Hang on to your hats, America.
And throw away that big, fat styrofoam finger while you’re about it.
There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll just say it: We’re no longer No.
1. Today, we’re No. 2. Yes, it’s official. The Chinese economy just
overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. For
the first time since Ulysse... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 49 英媒叹理论自信已失 网友：怎能轻言放弃
发表时间：2015-01-06 20:51:32
字号：A-AA+
关键字: 西方西方知识分子西方国家西方文化西方制度西方民主理论自信FT金融时报西
方的理论自信
市场、民主和美国霸权！
据说后冷战秩序是靠这三驾马车支撑的。对此，时评人拉赫曼曾坚定地相信这一点，可
如今他却有点犹豫了。他在5日为英国《金融时报》撰写的文章中，颇为哀怨地喟叹道
：“西方已经丧失理论自信了。”其中最为突出的表现就是，人们对“市场、民主和美
国霸权”这三驾马车的信念发生动摇了。
不过在拉赫曼言之凿凿地替“西方”立言的时候，有个问题必须首先追问：西方到底是
谁？
“丧失理论自信的到底是山姆大叔，还是整个西方？认为欧洲和美国完全是一回事，实
在是过于幼稚和简单化了。不要再把欧洲归于‘山姆大叔’的标签下了！认识到‘美国
’和‘西方’不完全是一回事，这很重要。”
正如网友@compayee在上述留言中所暗示的那样，在拉赫曼煞有介事地谈论“西方”的
时候，他的心里实际装的却是“美国”。
在拉赫曼的前半生里，“国际政治是通过冷战而得到定义的”。拉赫曼生于1963年，柏
林墙倒... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 15912 | 50 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/siemens-cuts-
Siemens AG, Europe’s largest engineering company, will cut another 4,500
jobs after second-quarter profit fell more than analysts estimated, burdened
by the declining oil price.
Profit from so-called industrial operations fell 4.9 percent to 1.66 billion
euros ($1.9 billion), the Munich-based company said in a statement. That
missed the 1.71 billion-euro average estimate of analysts surveyed by
Bloomberg.
Chief Executive Officer Joe... 阅读全帖 |
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