IN THE NEWS - The Economy Was Top News Story of 2009
The yearly AP top ten list includes President Obama’s inauguration and health care reform. Transcript of radio broadcast:
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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
At the end of each year, editors and news directors of the Associated Press in the United States vote for the top ten news stories of the year.
They named the American economy as the top news story of two thousand nine. The government approved more than seven hundred eighty billion dollars to help the struggling economy. Yet the unemployment rate was over ten percent. Many banks failed. And the federal deficit reached a record one point four trillion dollars. englishtang.com
Chief Justice John Roberts swears in Barack Obama as the 44th United States president
Last year, the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States. This year,abercrombie, Mister Obama\'s inauguration was voted the second top story.相关的主题文章：
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