The U.S. Department of Energy recently proposed putting $1 billion into a new $2.4 billion coal-burning energy plant.

美国能源部最近提议投入10亿美金在一个价值24亿美金的新燃煤能源工厂上。

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Michigan, hit hard by auto plant closures, had the highest unemployment in the country, the Labor Department said overnight, rising to 14.1 per cent in May from 12.9 per cent in April.

劳工部昨晚宣布，密歇根州，因为汽车工厂的关闭而遭受重创，失业率从4月份的12.9%上升到五月份的14.1%，成为全国最高失业率的州。

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Success must begin with a vision that CEOs, plant managers, and department heads across the company can share as they explain to their staff why the new way will be successful.

成功始于共同的愿景。无论是企业CEO、生产经理，还是部门主管，他们在向员工们解释为什么全新的道路会带来成功时，都必须认同这个共同的愿景。

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The United States Department of Agriculture has given farmers permission to plant genetically engineered sugar beets with some conditions.

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The head of the Institute's Genetics and Plant Breeding department, Jawahar Ram Sharma, said his team had genetically converted the poppy seed, which has naturally occurring narcotic properties, into a new, non-narcotic variety.

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The department chair, a plant biologist named Gopi Podila, distributed a printed agenda.

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And last year, the company signed an agreement with the Energy Department to build clean coal plant near Orlando, Fla.

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