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 The attorney for the family of 25-year-old Freddy Gray is speaking out about the 6.5 million dollars settlement unanimously approved by Baltimore officials today. Gray's death became a flesh point  in a growing nationwide debate over police's treatment of black suspects. KB with member station WYPR reports the settlement means there'll be no lawsuit¹ against the city. Gray family attorney Billy Murphy says the settlement represents the whole justice, praising Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake for taking decisive action. 'If this civil case and file ends in federal court which is our plan, it could easily have taken three years to resolve and no grieving family wants to go through that.' Negotiations² over a settlement began shortly after six officers were criminally charged in Gray's death from a spinal³ injury he suffered while in police custody⁴ in April. The mayor and other city officers have emphasized the settlement is not a indicator⁵ of guilt⁶ work innocents in the upcoming criminal trials. From NPR news, I'm KB in Baltimore. As Europe continues a deal with an influx⁷ of migrants, many coming from the war-torn Syria, the US now says it is prepared to increase the number of people it will accept next year. To officials and * speaking on condition amenity⁸, saying Secretary of State John Kerry told participants at a close door meeting on Capital Hill today US will boost its global quota⁹ for settling refugees. Kerry speaking after the meeting confirmed the US will take more migrants so he declined to give a specific number. President Obama travelled to Michigan today to promote his proposal for free community college. NPR's BN reports the president announced related program to provide apprenticeships. Speaking at Macone Community College outside Detroit, Obama unveiled a 175 million dollar grand program. He says it will provide apprenticeships to 34,000 students. Obama said the money would create apprenticeships in high-growth and high-tech¹⁰ industries, including healthcare, IT and advanced manufacturing. 'When our business is creating good jobs, and our community colleges and training programs are helping¹¹ workers get the skills they need to fill those jobs, you cannot stop this. There is nothing we cannot accomplish. 'The administration is also forming a board of educators and government officials to promote its plan for free community college which has gotten a cool reception in Congress.RN,NPR news, Washington.

Defense¹² contractor¹³ LM is wielding¹⁴ the job-cutting axe¹⁵. The professed¹⁶ * base contractor saying it is eliminating around 500 positions within its information systems and global solutions division. Cuts apparently¹⁷ involved both voluntary and involuntary lay-offs.

On Wall Street today, stocks after moving higher turned sharply in the opposite direction. The Dow ended the session down 239 points at 16253. NASDAQ was down 52 points. S&P 500 fell 27 points.

The chamber¹⁸ of house community that is looking into secretly-made videos of Plant Parenthood says an ongoing¹⁹ * group will protect tax-payers from quote the kinds of horrors as he put it that are contained in the videos. Republican BG of Virginia made his comments as the House of *  ommunity held its first hearing on the controversial video. Its secretly * abortion²⁰ opponents videos purported²¹ to show the Plant Parenthood profits illegally for providing fetus²² issue for medical research. Plant Parenthood is claiming the videos are heavily edited. An estimated of 14 percent of American households don't always have enough food. That's according to a new report from the US Department of Agriculture. NPR's A reports remains²³ fairly steady even as the economy has improved over the past several years. As the congress begins the process of reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Law, Agricultural secretary says it is important to know the role federal nutrition programs play in nourishing the families who rely on them. The millions who are struggling with food insecurity are not necessarily going hungry. But the USDA says they sometimes lack the resources to eat nutritious²⁴ meals.BS is CEO of the anti-hunger group' Share Our Strength.'This is a solvable problem. We have not only food in this country what the some countries of course don't, but we have food nutrition programmed. In addition to the snap rogram often referred to its food stamps, there are subsidized school lunches and breakfast. AN, NPR news.

Crude oil features prices close lower today. The price of oil was down a dollar 1 dollar and 79 cents a barrel to about 44.15 a barrel in New York.

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1 lawsuit   

n.诉讼，控诉

参考例句：

• They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
• He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。

2 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

3 spinal   

adj.针的，尖刺的，尖刺状突起的；adj.脊骨的，脊髓的

参考例句：

• After three days in Japan,the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.在日本三天，就已经使脊椎骨变得富有弹性了。
• Your spinal column is made up of 24 movable vertebrae.你的脊柱由24个活动的脊椎骨构成。

4 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

5 indicator   

n.指标；指示物，指示者；指示器

参考例句：

• Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
• His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。

6 guilt   

n.犯罪；内疚；过失，罪责

参考例句：

• She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
• Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。

7 influx   

n.流入，注入

参考例句：

• The country simply cannot absorb this influx of refugees.这个国家实在不能接纳这么多涌入的难民。
• Textile workers favoured protection because they feared an influx of cheap cloth.纺织工人拥护贸易保护措施，因为他们担心涌入廉价纺织品。

8 amenity   

n.pl.生活福利设施，文娱康乐场所；（不可数）愉快，适意

参考例句：

• The amenity of his manners won him many friends.他和悦的态度替他赢得很多朋友。
• Teachers' good amenity and culture have important educational value.教师良好的礼仪修养具有重要的教育价值。

9 quota   

n.（生产、进出口等的）配额，（移民的）限额

参考例句：

• A restricted import quota was set for meat products.肉类产品设定了进口配额。
• He overfulfilled his production quota for two months running.他一连两个月超额完成生产指标。

10 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

11 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

12 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

13 contractor   

n.订约人，承包人，收缩肌

参考例句：

• The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
• The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。

14 wielding   

手持着使用（武器、工具等）( wield的现在分词 )； 具有； 运用（权力）； 施加（影响）

参考例句：

• The rebels were wielding sticks of dynamite. 叛乱分子舞动着棒状炸药。
• He is wielding a knife. 他在挥舞着一把刀。

15 axe   

n.斧子；v.用斧头砍，削减

参考例句：

• Be careful with that sharp axe.那把斧子很锋利，你要当心。
• The edge of this axe has turned.这把斧子卷了刃了。

16 professed   

公开声称的，伪称的，已立誓信教的

参考例句：

• These, at least, were their professed reasons for pulling out of the deal. 至少这些是他们自称退出这宗交易的理由。
• Her manner professed a gaiety that she did not feel. 她的神态显出一种她并未实际感受到的快乐。

17 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。

18 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

19 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

20 abortion   

n.流产，堕胎

参考例句：

• She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
• A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。

21 purported   

adj.传说的，谣传的v.声称是…，（装得）像是…的样子( purport的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• the scene of the purported crime 传闻中的罪案发生地点
• The film purported to represent the lives of ordinary people. 这部影片声称旨在表现普通人的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》

22 fetus   

n.胎，胎儿

参考例句：

• In the fetus,blood cells are formed in different sites at different ages.胎儿的血细胞在不同时期生成在不同的部位。
• No one knows why a fetus is not automatically rejected by the mother's immune system. 没有人知道为什么母亲的免疫系统不会自动排斥胎儿。

23 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

24 nutritious   

adj.有营养的，营养价值高的

参考例句：

• Fresh vegetables are very nutritious.新鲜蔬菜富于营养。
• Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.蜂鸟发现花蜜和花粉是很有营养的。