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 The Republican-controlled House has approved the bill raising the nation's debt limits and containing other provisions. As NPR's @@ reports, that's exactly what president Obama had insisted upon and what many House Republicans had opposed. 

House Speaker John Boehner recent years sits tight debt limits increasing to federal spending cuts, what he called the Boehner rule. But he abandoned that approach after he had unable to craft anything that would win enough Republican votes to reach the majority of full House. Boehner, nonetheless won over Obama for refusing the Africa session in return for increasing the nation's borrowing authority to avoid the default. 

"So president is driving up the debt and the president wanting to do nothing about the debt that's occurring, or not engaged in our long-term spending problem, and so let his party give him the debt ceiling increase that he wants."

Democrats¹ provided the vast majority of the Yes vote. the proposal now goes to the Democrats currently controlled Senate, where a quick approval is expected. 

 

Some live in Georgia have already seen snow, according to reports, more on the way, including possible ice. president Obama announced its declared emergency of the state by making that declaration the White House clear the way for federal agencies to help the state and local state districts for the coming storm. Aaron Strickland, the emergency operation director of Georgia Power says the storm of ice and snow has potentially devastating². 

"This has the opportunity to be a huge event when you're talking about the amount of ice you're looking at."

Storm 2 weeks ago virtually paralyzed Atlanta, which is unused to winter weather. 

 

More results inform Winter Games in Sochi, and the American Olympic team just had well better days. Perhaps the most noticeable stun-never today's competition came the halfpipe. fans have been eagerly waiting star snowboarder Shaun White, recognizable by his flaming red hair to defend his 8-year-race of champion. Mr. White is backed up the extremely dangerous slow style event to better entirely³ unclenching another goal in halfpipe. NPR's Sonari Glinton says White did even medal. 

The flying tomato can't win the surprise. White finished in fourth in men snowboard halfpipe Tuesday evening. the goal medal went to Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov. they call him iPod and Jessica Jerome finished 10th with the United States contending in women's ski jumping. It was all bad news for the US. Erin Hamlin gives the US its first medal in women single luge by winning the bronze and in pairs ice skating Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir along with @@ and @@ advanced to their free programs. Sonari Glinton, NPR News, Sochi. 

 

number of one to going up December slow some coincident of the labor⁴ department job opening fell by 1%, just under 4 million. That was even as the number of jobs remain near 5.5 years high. 

 

on Wall Street, today the Dow was up 192 points to 15,994. 

 

You're listening to NPR News in Washington. 

 

President Obama, who is meeting this week in Washington with French president Francois Hollande, had a warning today for companies seeking to do businesses in Iran. Mr. Obama said those businesses had violated current sanctions in place against Teheran were filled the raft of the US. France and US are among the countries who have signed an internal agreement to halt the progress on the country's nuclear program in exchange for the easing of the international sanctions. some businesses, including a number of French firms, are apparently⁵ showing interesting of doing businesses with Iran since some sanctions have been ended. 

 

European Union has called for the formation of new government of Ukraine, which has been in a political crisis for nearly 3 months. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports the EU is offering economic help to Ukraine but only the country adopts democratic reform. 

Foreign ministers from 28 European Union nations issued a statement, saying Ukraine should form a new and inclusive government and prepare for free and fair presidential elections. it's the strongest statement yet from the EU although it started short of threatening sanctions against Ukraine government. Ukraine's crisis began last November when president Viktor Yanukovych backed down his promise to align⁶ the country with Europe. The decision sparked mass demonstration⁷ in Kyiv, the capital city that has continued ever since. Yanukovych has accepted a 15-billion-dollar loan package from Russia, which has been trying to keep Ukraine in its orbit. Corey Flintoff, NPR News. 

 

Singer Donovan, who sings "Sunshine Superman," "Mellow⁸ Yellow" and "Hurdy Gurdy Man", just is named with a few along with Kinks founder⁹, Ray Davies be headlined this year adopted the songwriters Hall of Fame. Davies was adopted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999. The summit will be held June 12 in New York. 

1 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

3 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

4 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

5 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

6 align   

vt.使成一线，结盟，调节；vi.成一线，结盟

参考例句：

• Align the ruler and the middle of the paper.使尺子与纸张的中部成一条直线。
• There are signs that the prime minister is aligning himself with the liberals.有迹象表明首相正在与自由党人结盟。

7 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

8 mellow   

adj.柔和的；熟透的；v.变柔和；(使)成熟

参考例句：

• These apples are mellow at this time of year.每年这时节，苹果就熟透了。
• The colours become mellow as the sun went down.当太阳落山时，色彩变得柔和了。

9 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。