Democrats and Republicans continue to argue what the true longer-term costs will be, with 10-year costs of the House measure put at more than $1 trillion.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Here's how you become an accredited investor: you have $1 million dollars in investable -that's not including your house, it's in investable assets.

怎样算是合资格投资者,首先,拥有100万美元的投资资金,不包括房产,必须是可供投资的资产

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I started on Jan 20, 2001 with the president at the White House.

我从2001年1月20日开始1,就和总统一起开始在白宫工作。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

White House officials say he will donate his $1.4 million prize money to charity.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

If the probability is 1 in 1,000 that a house burns down and there are 1,000 houses, then the probability that they all burn down is 1/1000 to the 1000th power, which is virtually zero.

如果一栋房子着火的概率是千分之一,然后假设有1000栋房子,那么这一千栋房子全都着火被烧掉的概率,就等于千分之一的一千次方,基本上就是0了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

But a short time later, the government announced that the country's leader, Senior General Than Shwe, had ordered the sentence commuted to 1 1/2 years under house arrest.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

The White House and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office,or CBO, project a federal deficit of about $1.6 trillion for the current fiscal year a record-high, although slightly less than had been projected a few months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

In a 405 to 1 vote last week, the House approved a compromise resolution largely crafted by Republicans condemning ongoing violence by the Iranian government and pro-government militias against demonstrators, and the suppression of independent electronic communications through interference with the Internet and cell phones.

VOA: standard.2009.06.23

Ugandan Minister of Defense, Crispus Kiyonga, said the African Union force, composed of 2,590 Ugandan troops and 1,600 from Burundi, has so far been able to defend the transitional government's state house, Mogadishu port and airport, but said reinforcements to al-Shabaab have created a difficult situation.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26