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Report As protesters outside chanted, the judges inside the US Supreme Court were hearing evidence on what could turn into the largest sex discrimination lawsuit in American history. This group of women are suing their bosses at Wal-Mart, claiming th
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Vocabulary Show All | Hide All chanted sang and shouted phrases repeatedly sex discrimination lawsuit legal cases where a person believes she (or he) has not been fairly treated because of her gender passed up rejected promotion here, moving to a mor
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Report News of the find has awakened new hopes among the team of crash investigators, that they may finally find the flight data recorders, which they say are crucial to determine the cause of the crash. There's been speculation that malfunctioning s
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Vocabulary the find the discovery awakened prompted flight data recorders machines in planes which store information on what happened during each flight (e.g. plane's direction, weather conditions) to determine the cause to find out what made (the cr
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Report Honda says it's cutting production at its Swindon plant, in southern England, by 50% from next week, as it grapples with shortages of key components from Japan. Wide swathes of Japanese industry are working at well below full capacity due to p
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Vocabulary production here, the number of cars made grapples with struggles to deal with key components crucial or important parts wide swathes here, large parts devastated wrecked or ravaged the supply chains the systems used to get parts or materia
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Report The colour olive green is the latest weapon in the ongoing battle between the Australian government and big tobacco. Under aggressive new proposals, billed as the toughest in the world, every packet of cigarettes sold in Australia would be pac
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Vocabulary proposals suggestions or plans off-putting repellent, or something which makes you want to avoid it branding designs or logos which identify a product as being made by a certain company anonymous unidentified, or unrecognisable grotesque v
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Japanese garbage island moves towards US Report Entire houses, bodies, car parts, tractors and many upturned boats have amassed off the east coast of Japan on an epic scale. The floating objects have been declared a maritime hazard by the American Na
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Japanese garbage island moves towards US Vocabulary amassed gathered or collected a large amount an epic scale a big or impressive size a maritime hazard a danger, encountered while at sea pierce puncture or damage the outer layer of shipping lanes r
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India 'telecoms scam' goes to court Report Andimuthu Raja and seven others, including two former bureaucrats, will be produced in a special court, which is expected to hold daily hearings, in one of the most high-profile trials in India. He's been ch
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Vocabulary bureaucrats officials who work for governments or other large organisations and follow rules very strictly conspiracy planning to carry out illegal activities forgery production of false or fake copies of something valuable (e.g. money or
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Jordan launches largest online antiquities catalogue Report Lying at the crossroads of three continents, Jordan hosts a number of World Heritage sites. The most famous is the spectacular 2,000 year-old rose rock city of Petra, which draws some one mi
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Vocabulary at the crossroads of at the meeting point of hosts is home to draws attracts chock full of packed with key to essential in urban encroachment the expansion of towns and cities into areas where people do not normally live antiquities zones
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Gulf oil leak recovery continues Report When President Obama stood on the beaches of Louisiana and Florida last year, he was as powerless as just about everyone else. The fate of the Deepwater Horizon rig was in the hands of BP engineers and for almo
