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Lesson Eleven

   Section One: News in Brief

   Tapescript
   1. Texas Air announced today that it will buy the troubled People
   Express Airlines for about a hundred and twenty-five million
   dollars.  The proposed deal would allow most People Express em-
   ployees to keep their jobs, although the company will eventually lose
   its identity and become part of Texas Air.  Federal officials must ap-
   prove the merger1.  Texas Air is also trying to buy Eastern Airlines.

   2. A rally on Wall Street today after six consecutive2 losing sessions,
   the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day up nearly nine
   points, to close at seventeen sixty-seven point fifty-eight.

   3. What's being called a 'freedom flight" of seventy former Cuban
   political prisoners landed in Miami today to an ecstatic reception by
   thousands of relatives and well-wishers.  The plane also carried
   forty7one relatives of former prisoners.  The flight culminated3 nearly
   two years of negotiations4 with the Castro regime.

   Section Two: News in     IDetail


   Tapescript
       Texas Air Corporation today announced that it has agreed to

   buy People Express Airlines for one hundred twenty-five million
   dollars in securities.  Texas Air already owns Continental5 Airlines
   and New York Air.  It is in the process of acquiring Eastern Airlines.
   People Express, one of the first no-frills, low-fare air carriers, has
   been in financial trouble lately.  It was forced to shut down its subsid-
   iary, Frontier Airlfiies.  Texas Air now says it will acquire Frontier's
   assets as part of its deal with People Express.  Joining us now from

   New York, NPR's business reporter Barbara Mantel.
        ' Barbara, it is said this is a very attractive low price, this one

   hundred twenty-five million dollars in securities.  Besides that, why

   does Texas Air want People Express?'
        "Well, Frank Lorenzo, who is Chairman of Texas Air, will get

   airplanes from People Express, which he might need.  He will get the
   lowest cost work-force in the industry at People Express.  He will get
   a new terminal at Newark, New Jersey6 that People Express is build-
   ing.  He'll get flights to London, and he will get control over competi-
   tion.  People Express competes heavily, especially in the northeast

   corridor, with Texas Air.'
        'This issue of competition has been a sticking point before for
   the Department of Transportation when two airlines wanted to get

   together.  How will Texas Air get around it this time?'
         'Well, they might not.  Texas Air wanted to acquire East ..., or

   wants to acquire, Eastern Airline, and the Department of Transpor-

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   tation said, 'No, not unless you sell more landing slots, more slots in
   the northeast corridor to Pan Am so that we'll have some competi-
   tion there.' And Texas Air agreed to that just last week.  That may
   happen again here.  The Department of Transportation may require
   that Texas Air sell some slots or some gates to another airline to en-
   sure that there is still competition in the northeast part of the
   marketplace.  But Texas Air has some leverage7 here with the De-
   partment of Transportation because People Express is a failing com-
   pany.  And the Department of Transportation may feel, 'Well, we'll
   let them'buy People Express and keep it running, rather than let ii
   fail and lose all those jobs.'"

       'Mm hm.  Now, if the deal is approved by the Department of
   Transportation, what is it likely to mean for consumers?  If there's
   less competition the fares could possibly go up.  "

       'Well, yes.  You would think that when you move from two
   competitors in a market to just one airliner8 that prices would just

   have to go up.  But I want you to keep in mind that unrestricted fares
   of the kind People Express offered, you know, wholesale9 unrestricted
   fares, were being eliminated and phased out anyway, because they
   were not profitable.  And the Department of Transportation theory
   here is that if you allow mergers10 to take place, or many mergers to
   take place, you might create more efficiencies and low costs, leading
   possibly to lower fares.  And also the Department of Transportation
   believes that there's a lot of potential competition in the
   marketplace.  Airlines can move planes around and buy gates, and so
   that if an airline in a particular market segment was making a lot of
   money and raising prices excessively, other airlines would move in

   and prices would be brought down through competition.  So that it's
   a nice theory, the theory of potential competition keeping prices in
   line, but it's sort of a new idea and it's not clear that that's really the
   way it would work.'

      'Thanks.' From New York, NPR's Barbara Mantel.

     Section Three: Special Report


     Tapescript
       "My audiences have been very devoted11 over the years through-

     out the country.  And they've expanded and grown and the country
     audience has been just as kind and as supportive as the folk audience

     has been.'
       'I was thinking though, nonetheless, when I put on this album,
     'The Last of the True Believers,' especially the title cut, that I heard

     more country there than I'd perhaps heard before."
        "Well, I guess it has .-.. I've moved in that direction, mainly be-

     cause I am playing with the band more.  My natural roots are there in
     country and hillbilly music.  And so I think that that just comes out

     more when you put the band with it."
     I  'I want to ask you some questions, please, about this album,

     aboutthe ... not so much what's on the inside right now, but whaes

     on the outside - a picture on the front of you in front of a

     Woolworth store, someplace, I guess, in Texas or Tennessee, and

        'Houston, Texas.'
          In Houston, Texas?  Is it the Woolworth store that has the

     hardwood floor still'and the parakeets in the back and that sort of

     thing?'
         "Well, this one that we shot this in front of in Houston Texas is
     one of the largest ones in the country.  It's a two-storey and it's got
     the escalator that does a little pinging noise every couple of minutes.

     And it takes up a whole city block."
         "But, why a cover photo in front of Woolworth's?'
          'Well,, that comes from the song 'Love at the Five and Dime,'
     which was a song that Cathy Mattea also cut this year and had my
     first, you know, top five country hit with.  And it deals with the

     Woolworth store.'
          "There is, on the cover, you are holding a book, and you can/t

   really see. ... What is the name of the book on the cover you're hold-
   ing?'

         'In the Kindness of Strangers, the latest Tennessee Williams' bi-
   ography.'

        'And on the back is Larry McMurtrie's book about a cattle
   drive around the turn of the century, Lonesome Dove.'
        "He's my main prose hero.'

        'Now, why?  Why would you do that?  Why would you pose
   with a book?'

        "Well, I have, my audience consists of a lot of young people be-
   tween the ages of, maybe you know, fourteen and twenty-f'ive.  And I
   read a lot, and I alsowrite short stories and have written a novel.
   And I just feel like young people are missing out because they don't
   read books.  And any time I have the opportunity to influence the
   young person to pick up a book and read it, I would try to do that.'
       'When you hear these lyrics12, when the words come to you, are
   you hearing the stanzas'as poetry or as music?'

       'Well, I'm hearing them as music.  Lyrics usually come to me,
   and songs come to me as a total picture.  And the music and the lyrics
   come at the same time.  Sometimes they shoot me straight up in bed,
   you know, in the middle of the night.  'The Wing and the Wheel' is a
   very special song to me.  It's probably my favorite song that I've ever
   written.  And that song was inspired at the Vancouver Folk Festival
   by two people who are from Managua, Nicaragua.  They have a duo
   call Duo Guar Buranco.  And just about four o'clock in the morning,
   I was sitting in my hotel room and listening to them sing in the room

   next door, and looking out the window at this little fingernail moon
   hanging out over the Vancouver Bay, and that song just came flow-
   ing, you know, and was inspired by those two people.'
      'Now, that sounds easy.'

      'Well, it IS easy.  If you listen. to yourself and you listen to the
   inspiration that's bringing on that particular song, it's easy.  It's just a

matter of getting up and writing it down.'
     Nancy Griffith, talking with us in WPLN in Nashville.  She is
 continuing her national tour with the Everly Brothers.  Her latest al-
 bum is called "The Last of the True Believers.'


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1 merger vCJxG     
n.企业合并,并吞
参考例句:
  • Acceptance of the offer is the first step to a merger.对这项提议的赞同是合并的第一步。
  • Shareholders will be voting on the merger of the companies.股东们将投票表决公司合并问题。
2 consecutive DpPz0     
adj.连续的,联贯的,始终一贯的
参考例句:
  • It has rained for four consecutive days.已连续下了四天雨。
  • The policy of our Party is consecutive.我党的政策始终如一。
3 culminated 2d1e3f978078666a2282742e3d1ca461     
v.达到极点( culminate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • a gun battle which culminated in the death of two police officers 一场造成两名警察死亡的枪战
  • The gala culminated in a firework display. 晚会以大放烟火告终。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 negotiations af4b5f3e98e178dd3c4bac64b625ecd0     
协商( negotiation的名词复数 ); 谈判; 完成(难事); 通过
参考例句:
  • negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
  • Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。
5 continental Zazyk     
adj.大陆的,大陆性的,欧洲大陆的
参考例句:
  • A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
  • The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。
6 jersey Lp5zzo     
n.运动衫
参考例句:
  • He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
  • They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致,都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。
7 leverage 03gyC     
n.力量,影响;杠杆作用,杠杆的力量
参考例句:
  • We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
  • He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力,他的计划失败了。
8 airliner Azxz9v     
n.客机,班机
参考例句:
  • The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
  • The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。
9 wholesale Ig9wL     
n.批发;adv.以批发方式;vt.批发,成批出售
参考例句:
  • The retail dealer buys at wholesale and sells at retail.零售商批发购进货物,以零售价卖出。
  • Such shoes usually wholesale for much less.这种鞋批发出售通常要便宜得多。
10 mergers b4ab62fffa9919cbf1e93fcad6d3150c     
n.(两个公司的)合并( merger的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • Mergers fall into three categories: horizontal, vertical, and conglomerate. 合并分为以下三种:横向合并,纵向合并和混合合并。 来自辞典例句
  • Many recent mergers are concentrated within specific industries, particularly in retailing, airlines and communications. 现代许多合并企业集中进行某些特定业务,在零售业、民航和通讯业中更是如此。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
11 devoted xu9zka     
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
参考例句:
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
12 lyrics ko5zoz     
n.歌词
参考例句:
  • music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
  • The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。

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