In nineteen fifty-one, Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover urged the United States Congress to provide money for the first nuclear-powered submarine.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

The first wave was in the 1960s and, at that time, Congress had limits-- state governments had limits on the interest that savings banks could pay people on their accounts.

在20世纪60年代,那时候国会限制了...,各州政府给储蓄银行,设定了账户利率的支付上限

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One--the first wave of REIT growth occurred right after Congress passed the 1960 bill.

EITs增长的第一波高潮,发生在国会1960年法案通过之后

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Within the first few weeks of the Civil War, the Confederate Congress voted to move the capital farther north to Richmond,Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman to be elected to the United States Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

The ruling was unpopular. It came as Americans resisted big corporations like the First Bank of the United States, chartered by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

In his first message to Congress, President Arthur asked for changes in the way government jobs were filled.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

First,they refused to let many of the recently elected southern congressmen take their seats when Congress opened.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Congress first acted in nineteen sixty-eight after the murder of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

On Monday, for the first time, President Obama offered his own version of a plan to breathe new life into the legislation in Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

In nineteen fifty-three, the first lady persuaded Congress to declare a National Teacher Day.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

That clears the way for the administration to set limits, unless Congress acts first.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Four years later, the first Alaskan statehood bill was proposed in Congress.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The new president gave his first speech to Congress Tuesday night.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

She was shot through the brain. Police believe she was the main target of the attack -- the first shooting of a member of Congress in more than thirty years.

VOA: special.2011.01.15

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

But her place in history will be secure as the first female speaker, and the one who helped pushed health care legislation through Congress.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

The senator is the first U.S.member of Congress to visit Burma in more than a decade.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

For many of these activists, stopping health care reform is the first step toward defeating Democrats in Congress in November and President Obama in 2012.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Maria Lay,a member of the ruling CNRT party, the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction, says first on the government's list is building new power plants.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

Donohue's speech comes as President Obama prepares to deliver his first state of the union address and Congress considers additional stimulus measures to create new jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Immigration reform failed in Congress in 2006 and 2007 and President Obama promised to make the issue a top priority during his first year in office.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

It is a necessity. He believes that the first priority of any climate bill enacted by Congress must be to put a cap on global warming gases.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Ms.Merkel is the first German leader to speak before a joint meeting of Congress, and the first to address the House or Senate since Konrad Adenauer in 1957.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Congress spokesman Digvijay Singh laments the BJP's support of the first-time candidate.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

the latest single from American Saturday Night. He recently performed the song and several others at the White House for President Barack Obama, the first lady and members of Congress.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The guest list for the dinner provided a sample. Among those seated in the State Dining Room were the first two Muslims elected to the U.S.Congress Keith Ellison and Andre Carson.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

And last June,says Sittenfeld, the House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, the first bill out of either chamber of Congress to directly take on the challenge of global warming.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25