President Obama spent his first year in office trying to prevent the collapse of big financial firms, and stabilize the national economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

We saw a collapse in real estate prices after 1990 and a recession in 1991, so it was the big story of the 1980s.

我们目睹了1990年后房价暴跌,以及1991年的经济衰退,这就是20世纪80年代的重大事件

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To avert an economic collapse, the administration moved forward with a controversial plan to bail out banks deemed too big to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15