"We must stop the shark-finning which is resulting in the death of thirty to seventy million sharks each year because that has so upset ocean ecology by the removal of these often apex, top-level predators."

VOA: special.2011.03.15

That's not a way that we really think about it, but I do believe that the risk level of the University's portfolio is really quite low in statistical terms -much lower than the risk level that you'd have if you had a traditional portfolio dominated by marketable securities.

这一般不是我们考虑的关键,但我相信,耶鲁投资组合的风险水平,在统计数字上是非常低的,远远低于,持有一个传统的可交易证券主导的,投资组合的beta系数

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"We estimate in WHO that over thirty million lives can be saved in the next ten years by simple measures -- reducing the level of salt by fifteen to twenty percent, reducing the amount of tobacco, and increasing the number of people who are at risk of a heart attack and stroke to be on simple preventive treatment."

VOA: special.2011.05.11

Unemployment in the 27-member EU is expected to reach 11.5 percent by 2010 - the highest level since World War II.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

While in New York, Mr.Obama also addressed a high-level summit on climate change,called by U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

They now face perennial power Brazil, a four-time champion at this level, but Tetteh says he is not concerned by the formidable opponent.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

"The key finding of this meeting is that we have up to one-meter sea-level rise by 2100, based on our new insight of glaciers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

If he is confirmed by the Senate to the Cabinet-level post, Lew would inherit a deficit of more than $1 trillion for the first three-quarters of this fiscal year, with more deficits to come.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

The New York meeting co-chaired by President Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was the first summit-level session of the informal Friends of Democratic Pakistan grouping, and it brought together leaders of some 25 countries and organizations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"I define success as the ability to empower and transfer responsibility to Afghans as rapidly as possible, and achieve a sufficient level of stability to ensure that we can leave behind an Afghanistan that is not controlled by al-Qaida or the Taliban,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

But in fact academic studies have shown that this is wrong-footed and that in the long run by not having a level playing field, by not building systems, by not creating competitive markets you are actually undermining development and you are undermining economic growth and you are taking away the trust of potential investors."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17