A city report says economic activity last year totaled almost three billion dollars, a four percent decrease from two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

This was the Stieglitz picture, City of Ambition, I showed you last Wednesday.

这个是施蒂格利茨的画，叫“城市的野心“，我上周三给你们看过。

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I moved to the city last June,

我是去年的6月搬过来的，

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Last month, gunmen kidnapped a retired army general in Cancun, a beach city popular with American college students on spring break.

VOA: special.2009.03.14

Over the last five years, the city has reduced its public workforce and taken other steps like closing fire stations and swimming pools.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

last year. New York University and Columbia University, both in New York City, were second and third.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

And,last month,the Brookings Institution in Washington listed the city among the twenty economically strongest in America.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

Last year's results show Minneapolis,Minnesota and Seattle,Washington tied in the top position for most literate city.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

Last year,MOCA reopened in a new and much larger building in the citys Chinatown neighborhood.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

At last,Jacob Riis got a job writing for a newspaper in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Athnaise's last week in the city was coming to an end.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

At last,the remaining gold seekers reached the city of Dawson.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

The Canadian city hosted the Winter Olympics last year.

VOA: special.2011.06.18

The last stadium, in the eastern city of Nelspruit, is to be handed over as soon as a new pitch is finished.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

(VOICE) In June,Harper taught his last class in instrumental music in the school district of Yonkers, a suburb north of New York City.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Last month Mercedes Benz opened an assembly plant near the Western city of Pune.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Nearby,Marina Pirozhnivona, recounted how her 86-year-old aunt died last Saturday after experiencing breathing problems on a day when wood smoke pushed city carbon monoxide to almost seven times safe levels.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Congolese security forces detained Golden Misabiko last month in the southern city of Lubumbashi after the human rights activist published a report questioning the government's deal with the French nuclear power firm Areva.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

Clinton's India visit, which began late Friday in Mumbai, has been filled with reminders of the Pakistani-based terrorist attacks on that city last November that killed 166 people and set back relations between the two South Asian powers.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

But India's diamond center is now desolate. Merchants in the once busy trading city say they have transacted virtually no business since last Christmas as orders dry up from Western buyers, who bought nearly 90 percent of their stones.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03