CNN Marketplace 2006-06-10

A day after announcing they'll be switching to a healthier blend of oil, Wendy's says there'll be no more biggie sizes, well, at least in name only.

'We are, er, introducing a 3-tier combo program, er, later on this month and as part of that we are doing away with the biggie size in name, er, we're going to small, medium and large. ' Company spokesman Bob Bertini. A former biggie size will now actually be a medium.

The trade deficit¹ continues to widen as oil import prices continue to rise, says Mesirow Financial Chief Economist² Diane Swonk.

'Unfortunately we're still in the stage where although exports are starting to pick up a bit, we still are insatiable nad(she was trying to say 'demand', but botched it.), demand for imports is swamping that and imported oil is one of those factors. '

Her English structure was not that good to begin with and when she missaid 'demand' she forgot what she was saying and further erred³. The sentence is not correct.

The deficit did grow by less than expected in April, coming in at 63.4 billion instead of the predicted 65 billion.

Your cable bill may be getting cheaper soon, thanks to a House-passed telecommunications bill.

Legislation increases competition, telecom analyst⁴ Gary Arlen says that's a good thing.

'Increased competition is definitely gonna push prices down as it's already done to some degree with the satellite competition. '

Arlen says it will also unleash⁵ a race for who can best bundle their service.

The telcos want to offer the same kind of things that cable offers with uh CNN and MTV and ESPN, HBO and all the other line up but a lot of those deals are still in the works.

Currently the US doesn't even rank in the top 10 worldwide in broadband deployment⁶. This legislation should change that. Bob Witkin , CNN.

And if you work for Michaels, gear up, because the retailer⁷ is taking another look at employee stock options paid out over an 11-year period.

Michaels stores, which of course is that chain of craft stores based down in Texas, says it's not gonna be (er) putting in its uh first quarter report for a while because it's reviewing uh stock options paid to executives. Get this, from 1990 through 2001.

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1 deficit   

n.亏空，亏损；赤字，逆差

参考例句：

• The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
• We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。

2 economist   

n.经济学家，经济专家，节俭的人

参考例句：

• He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
• He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。

3 erred   

犯错误，做错事( err的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He erred in his judgement. 他判断错了。
• We will work on those who have erred and help them do right. 我们将对犯了错误的人做工作，并帮助他们改正。

4 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

5 unleash   

vt.发泄，发出；解带子放开

参考例句：

• They hope to create allies to unleash against diseases,pests,and invasive species.他们希望创造出一些新群体来对付疾病、害虫和一些有侵害性的物种。
• Changing water levels now at times unleash a miasma of disease from exposed sewage.如今，大坝不时地改变水位，从暴露的污水释放出了疾病瘴气。

6 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

7 retailer   

n.零售商(人)

参考例句：

• What are the retailer requirements?零售商会有哪些要求呢？
• The retailer has assembled a team in Shanghai to examine the question.这家零售商在上海组建了一支团队研究这个问题。