• Mr Martin also questioned whether the Good Friday Agreement was delivering in real terms for people living in Northern Ireland and highlighted the issue of child poverty as an area where things were getting worse instead of better.

    BBC: Micheal Martin

  • Over a span of several minutes, he then painted Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein in negative terms for failing to remember much about the events in question.

    FORBES: Gupta Insider Trading Trial Comes To A Close

  • Reynolds and Shaywitz (2009) provides quite a scathing critique of RtI, particularly in saying there is not a lot of evidence to match the enthusiasm for RtI in terms of research support for RtI, ease of implementation, breadth of applications in the schools, and the ability of the RtI model to benefit children with learning disabilities.

    FORBES: There Are No Silver-Bullets in Education Reform

  • Moreover, through the personal accounts every worker would be accumulating substantial personal wealth over their career, close to a million dollars or more in real terms for a two earner average income couple, once the option is fully phased in.

    FORBES: Newt Gingrich's Entitlement Reform Plan

  • If you look at the Congressional Budget Office testimony that was released today, it said that in terms of bang for the buck, so in terms of how much kick you get from a dollar of budget costs, direct spending, like investing in roads and schools and other - the electricity grid is actually more effective than tax revisions.

    NPR: Orszag Eyes Swift Spending Of Stimulus Funds

  • Salaries have risen strongly in real terms for years, and unemployment is at a record low.

    ECONOMIST: A revolution in the workplace meets little resistance

  • Last year, America's broad money supply grew at its fastest in real terms for a quarter-century.

    ECONOMIST: Give growth a chance

  • This is reckoned to entail increases of 5% a year in real terms for at least the next five years.

    ECONOMIST: Can Tony Blair spend his way out of trouble on health?

  • What this means in practical terms for the government is that it must pay more for workers if they are federal employees than if they are contract personnel.

    FORBES: Pentagon Insourcing Binge Begins To Unravel

  • Meanwhile, even though the white population is slowly increasing, the number of white voters dropped by 2 million the first drop in absolute terms for any race or ethnic group since 1996.

    NPR: A Census First: Black Voter Turnout Passes Whites

  • On this issue, too, Mr Juncker has tried to find a compromise, suggesting that the rebate debate be linked to farm-subsidy reforms, and that Britain's rebate be frozen in nominal terms for several years.

    ECONOMIST: Europe’s painful summit | The

  • India is not a rich country, but per capita incomes are improving steadily at 5-7% in real terms for the past decade and for that reason we see a lot of room for banks to grow these segments.

    FORBES: For India's $11 Bln Kotak Fund, Banks a Favorite

  • That would transform the highest tax most working people pay into a personal family wealth engine that over a lifetime of savings and investment would accumulate to close to a million dollars in real terms for two-earner average income families.

    FORBES: Warren Buffett's Public Disservice On Taxation

  • "'The most important thing for me about Oxford was not what I learnt there in terms of set texts and set books we had to read, but in terms of a respect for the best in human civilization, " she is quoted as saying at the ceremony.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • And shame on Major League Baseball for both allowing this to happen and, in broader terms, for being stubborn or ignorant enough to believe that professional baseball belongs in the Miami market.

    FORBES: Miami Marlins Ownership Defiles Public's Trust with Another Roster Fire Sale

  • Beijing has joined the World Trade Organisation, and Delhi sees it as a powerful potential counterweight to the power of America and the other rich nations in setting the terms for international commerce trade in a new global trade round.

    BBC: China and India build business links

  • "Elephant poaching is on the increase and given the fact that Central African Republic for the moment is also in dire straits we are fearing for the worst in terms of people trying to look seriously for ivory, " said Bas Huijbregts, head of policy for WWF's campaign against poaching in Central Africa.

    BBC: Elephant poaching 'rising' in Central African Republic

  • Some economists reckon that next year China's exports may see no growth (in dollar terms) for the first time in more than 25 years.

    ECONOMIST: China's economy

  • Many of them may see flat gold prices in dollar terms, but would be buyers of gold in euro terms as the outlook for gold as valued in that currency is stronger.

    FORBES: METALS OUTLOOK: Greece, Dollar To Influence Gold Next Week

  • The President asked for sacrifices by those companies in making some hard decisions that for years they had put off in terms of restructuring in order to build a better future for its workers and the communities that those plants were in.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Wages for most workers have been falling, in real terms, for several years.

    BBC: UK jobs: The plot thickens

  • Yes, bonds are still valuable ballast for every long-term portfolio, but in terms of looking for where the best incremental returns are likely to be going forward, Fidelity is clearly on the record: Stocks, not bonds.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Elizabeth Demers, a professor at INSEAD, a business school near Paris, points out that what companies lose in terms of hard cash in the early days can often be made up for in terms of the publicity they get when the news media applaud the explosive rise in their share prices.

    ECONOMIST: Social-media firms see champagne; others see bubbles

  • Click here for a look at which companies had the biggest gains and losses in percentage terms and for a brief analysis of each company's prospects.

    FORBES

  • If other countries are critical of Britain both for being too exposed in terms of debt and for borrowing further, then he begins to look more vulnerable politically.

    BBC: Martha Kearney's week

  • It is the voters who decide, for instance, to limit legislators' terms in office, to mandate prison terms for criminals, to withdraw benefits from undocumented immigrants, to spend money on trains or sewers, or to let Indian tribes run casinos.

    ECONOMIST: California

  • We haven't heard from the Governor any specifics beyond Big Bird and eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood in terms of how he pays for that.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • And with regard to this, obviously the bank in question speaks for itself in terms of the decisions it made originally to announce the fee and now to withdraw it.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And one of the issues he raised was the idea that Iran obviously borders Afghanistan and has stayed relatively -- has stayed pretty much out of Afghanistan in terms of -- compared to some of the things that it's done in Iraq, for instance, in terms of arming the insurgents in Iraq.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定