Archive for February, 2010
Studying in the US: Grading Grades
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. This week in our Foreign Student Series the subject is grades. Most American colleges and universities use the grading system of A, B, C, D and F. An A is worth four points, a B three points, a C two points and a D one point. Getting [...]
Slowing Exports, High Debt Shake Central and Eastern Europe
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Leaders of the European Union met Sunday in Brussels to discuss measures to deal with the world financial crisis. But the emergency meeting showed growing divisions between western European countries and newer members of the European Union. Economies in central and eastern Europe have been hit hard [...]
Obama Proposes 3.5 Dolar Trillion Budget for 2010
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Copies of the budget outline. The president will release a more detailed plan in April. President Barack Obama on Thursday proposed his first budget to Congress. He wants to let the Bush administration’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans end next year, replaced by a middle-class tax [...]
