1.So far he has had mixed success.2.The American government is notoriously stingy with its foreign aid.3.America still falls near the bottom of the rich-nation pack in generosity tothose abroad.4．And with the deaths concentrated in the working-age population, each new case adds to a widening circle of economic hardship. 5．“Unemployment”, Mr de Villepin declared, is “the true French disease”. 6．He is pinned into an uncomfortably tight corner7．On domestic front, things picked up a bit.8．To win, one needs a winner's mindset.9. Science was the favourite child in the hands of the government.10．John Sweeney--gave a very downbeat assessment of the forum's dedication to a real adjustment of policy.11. Like the other online giants, Google, Yahoo! and Amazon, eBay is the survivor of a brutal shake-out.12. Sport may be an unfailing cause of ill-will.13. Mr Abe seems keen on a more assertive role for Japan internationally. 14．Allegations of vote-buying in the Brazilian Congress are no novelty15．There's plenty of scope for argument about the economics of nuclear power generation16. But the economic case is not as clear-cut as it seems.17．There has always been a rift in the Republican coalition.18．That suggests there are reservoirs of support.19. They have managed to leave all the other rivals in dust.20. Oil exports are now nearly on a par with those of Saudi Arabia.21．European integration has reached a stable plateau.22．Many people protest that house prices are less vulnerable to a meltdown.23. But when the technology bubble burst in 2001, thousands of firms were swept away.24．Various scenarios are envisioned by Grant.25. America will funnel more money towards Africa.26. The intense international scrutiny may have moderated the response.27. Personal and economic freedoms in this country have multiplied.28. Access to more customers allows exporters to exploit economies of scale.29. Some developing countries—in Latin America, especially Brazil, and in Africa too—are furious that a deal slipped away.30. Ministers picked a poor time to fail.31. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.32. Support for both main parties continues to ebb.33. Chinese central government made a wise decision to scrap the ancient agricultural tax.34. These results seem to have silenced predictions.35．We need to market Europe as an answer to globalization.36. These countries have agreed on a firm line on Iran and sent Tehran a focused, concerted, unified message.37. The U.S. and German leaders are still nursing a relationship bruised by the Iraq war.38．Opinion on Iraq reflects, as well as contributes to, the malaise.39．The decline in support could be explained away as part of a wider outbreak of second-term blues.40. He is a pragmatic conservative who has relaunched himself as a cautious reformist.41．The impression of incompetence will linger.42．So far no dazzling synergies have emerged.43. The most pressing problem is the dismal state of Germany’s public finances. 44．His postal-reform bill squeezed through the lower house of parliament 45．In a banking system that is plagued by bad loans, fears persist.46. Psychological scars take longer to heal than physical ones.47. Earlier scandals had already begun to tarnish the Party’s holier-than-thou image.48. The president will now have to move quickly to form alliances and to apply balm to the wounds he has opened. If not, he will have only himself to blame.49. If they negotiated as a block, they could drive a harder bargain.50. For Kyoto Protocol, it’s hard to solve the difficulty of getting America on board.51. Underpinning this festival of commerce is the symbiotic relationship between sport and the media.52. New features and new strategies are being embraced as these firms fighteach other, and a horde of others, for the e-commerce pie.53．What people today want is a Europe that delivers useful benefits: jobs, a clean environment, a foreign policy success on Iran54．You can't rouse people's passions for something that is 50 years old.55．Many people in Western Europe still feel that the union's recent eastward expansion has invited the unwanted consequences of globalization onto the continent.56．In that sense Europe is pioneering a new world order: a multi-network Europe within a common institutional framework."57．Even more embarrassingly, the gluttonous United States has outperformed its oil-sipping peers.58. High oil prices have had little noticeable impact on world demand—even for oil itself—leaving analysts scrambling for an explanation.59. Foreigners’ frustration at not being able to grab a bigger slice of the industry is understandable.60．Not only has this provided a healthy stream of income for Russia’s government, which takes a big chunk of oil revenues in taxes, but it has made its oil a vital foreign-policy tool.61．The global housing boom is the biggest financial bubble in history article. The bigger the boom, the bigger the eventual bust.62．Europe, in particular, is struggling with its cosseted and deeply entrenched farm lobby. Disputes over the CAP（common agriculture policy）are still acrimonious63．T he Bush administration is still trying to cobble together a deal palatable to both its own producers and those in Brazil.64．In Europe, attitudes on Turkey's bid for European Union membership were shaped strongly by attitudes on immigration.65. From its findings in the Western world, the new report sketched more sharply some of the fault lines in nations where Muslims and others coexist. 66．It offers an unusually broad look at Muslim attitudes, and at Western attitudes on a range of Muslim issues.67. Amid the mounting safety and security concerns, Western sponsors are trying to accelerate the disposal of the Ukraine's arms burden.68. That makes it harder to cure Brazil's Stockholm syndrome, a love for a state that holds the economy hostage.69. Mr Berlusconi’s oddly precise promise to round up jobless foreigners was no accident. One of the few legal grounds for expelling foreigners from another EU nation is to show they have no means of support.70. Globalisation started long before enlargement, but enlargement has crystallised public fears about it, often setting one corner of Europe against another.71. This complex history is what lured Mr Baker. His goal, he says, is to nurture understanding and, one day, healing.72．Having portrayed itself for so long as owning a monopoly on virtue in political life, the fall from grace of Brazil’s governing, left-wing Workers’ Party (PT) has been spectacular.73. A large number of educated, intelligent and underemployed people in their 30s and 40s with little prospect of moving up the career ladder provided a perfect milieu for brewing liberal ideas.74．Mr Mack will probably be able to quell the turmoil that has engulfed the bank, but that will still leave him facing some daunting strategi c challenges.75．Mr Purcell’s tenure was plagued by disappointing performance, a lingering rift between the Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter.76．But as the controversy fed on itself, institutional investors got on theanti-Purcell bandwagon.77．The insurgency was in its “last throes”. The administration's pattern of overselling achievements—remember “Mission accomplished”?—has probably made public opinion more nervous and volatile than it would otherwise be.78．The current structure of agricultural protections not only hurts poor African farmers, but also, by levying disproportionate tariffs on many processed goods such as ground coffee, helps keep poor countries selling low on the value chain. This leaves their already-weak economies extremely vulnerable to swings in raw commodity prices.79. Businesspeople and academics mused on how to deal with new risks--you can't hedge against bioterrorism in the futures markets. Economists debated which letter would best describe the US economy--a V (sharp fall followed by a quick recovery), a U with a saggy right tail (long stagnation, weak recovery) or, most appropriate, a W (false recovery followed by a fresh downdraft). The consensus leaned away from the V toward the saggy U, with the W not to be ruled out.80．Given the seismic shock waves from French and Dutch voters' rejection of the proposed European constitution, the tightening of the European Union's economic andpolitical ties is unlikely to proceed as quickly as in the past, but is equally unlikely to be reversed.81. We hold that one who distributes a device with the object of promoting its use to infringe copyright, as shown by the clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement, is liable for the resulting acts of infringement by third parties.82．J ust as the upswing in house prices has been a global phenomenon, so any downturn is likely to be synchronised, and thus the effects of it will be shared widely. The housing boom was fun while it lasted, but the biggest increase in wealth in history was largely an illusion.83．Stories of prisoner abuse would really make a difference, though, if they significantly dented Americans' image of themselves as the good guys abroad. So far, they have not done that. By a wide margin, people believe the reports are isolated incidents.84．Mr Bush has staked his presidency on success in Iraq. It would take a huge backlash to force him to accept anything that smacks of failure or defeat, and the decline in public support is nowhere near strong enough to make him contemplate such a course.85．A few, it seems safe to predict, will become the giant-killers of tomorrow. For managers of any business, the lessons of eBay are both exhilarating and daunting: the prizes offered by the internet are dazzling by any measure, but only those who can satisfy the demanding and changing tastes of consumers, the internet's true sovereigns, will survive to enjoy them.86．This was the culmination of a months-long battle between Mr Purcell and a coterie of former Morgan Stanley bankers, k nown as the “group of eight”, who waged a fierce public battle to unseat him after he engineered a management shake-up that resulted in the departure of a number of senior executives.87. That is why Mr Koizumi had to compromise on the timetable and will not get to see full privatisation until 2017—a long way off, even in a country where moving reform up to a snail’s pace would count as reckless acceleration.88．Works council denied newspaper reports that VW managers had bought off s enior union leaders, for instance with trips to Brazil Hence the excitement now gripping Germany over an unfolding bribery scandal at VW.89. Paris thinking of its no vote on a European constitution, its failed candidacy as 2012 Olympic host, and its sense of going nowhere as a wannabeworld-player. Rather, the issue is large parts of a leadership caste, so tuned only to itself, so played out, so fearful of saying we've got to change our act, that it approaches autism.90. Mr Saakashvili’s fear is that developments far away in the Balkans could permanently stymie his hopes of glueing his country back together again. The west has encouraged Mr Saakashvili’s hopes of a permanent shift for his country, by agreeing to accelerate Georgia’s progress towards NATO.91. The labour market is too regulated, taxes are too complex and too high, the public sector is bloated and unresponsive, the education and health systems need a shake-up.92. The purpose of Sir Nicholas’s report is to deal with the argument of people who accept that climate change is happening, but who say that trying to do anything about it would be a waste of money. This argument is heard occasionally in Europe and frequently in America, where, for added potency, it is combined with the notion that European attempts to tax carbon are part of a conspiracy by socialists determined to undermine the American way of life.93. That gloomy view rests on an overly optimistic premise. However enthusiastic the West is about Mr. Yushchenko, EU membership was always along way off. Relations with Russia, meanwhile, have been civil but fragile. If some of the disappointments of Mr Yushchenko's short tenure can be put down to inflated expectations after last year's drama, others stem from the exigencies of the revolution. Various bits of the alliance that propelled Mr Yushchenko to the presidency had to be paid back with government offices.94. Despite this, at the start of the year Ms Merkel looked surprisingly good. Her early foreign-policy forays, especially to Washington, DC, and Brussels, were glittering successes that drew a favourable contrast with her Social Democratic predecessor, Gerhard Schröder. The economy was at last picking up some momentum. Business confidence was high. Her party was even gaining ground with the electorate.95. India’s willingness to open its economy in reality is in lamentable contrast to its inability to commit itself at the WTO. Its stubbornness is explained by the ferocity of India’s politics on this subject and the desperate, even suicidal, poverty of many of its farmers.96. Healthcare has long seemed one of the most local of all industries. Yet beneath the bandages, globalization is thriving. The outsourcing of record keeping and the reading of X-rays is already a multi-billion-dollar business. The recruitment of doctors and nurses from the developing world by rich countries is also common, if controversial. The next growth area for the industry is the flow of patients in the other direction—kno wn as “medical tourism”—which is on the threshold of a dramatic boom.97. Russian society, exhausted by preceding tension and failures, is in a state of some numbness and apathy, spiritual disjunction and depression…Russian literature is flooded by a muddy wave of pornography and sensationalism. 98. The foreign-exchange markets have sensed a change in the weather. Over the past week, the dollar has swiftly gained ground against the euro and the pound. The thinking in the foreign exchanges is that it makes less sense to punish the dollar if other economies are doing so badly. The fear of a dollar rout, which has long stalked financial markets and even prompted the FederalReserve chief to talk up the currency as recently as June, now seems to have evaporated.99. Presidential elections usually whip up global interest, reasonably so given the president’s dominance of foreign policy. The congressional poll, in contrast, provokes mostly yawns. This time, with Democrats apparently poised to make big gains partly because of foreign affairs, there may be more reason than usual for outsiders to pay attention.100. The coming boom has its critics. Some worry that a flood of foreigners into developing countries will divert money and expertise from state health systems that are already overwhelmed—an internal brain drain that will worsen care for ordinary people. Others decry it as a distraction from the need to cut costs and improve quality in rich-world health systems.。