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August 2nd, 1964
The Pentagon reports the first of two attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on U.S. destroyers in 
    五角大楼                                                        鱼雷
the Gulf of Tonkin. Days later, President Lyndon Johnson orders the first bombing raids on North
    东京湾                                                                         袭击
Vietnamese military installations. “We still seek no wider war.” Congress swiftly approves broad 
           军事基地                                                          很快的
powers to Johnson to escalate America's military involvement in Vietnam. A National Security Agency 
                     扩大                          介入                                            
analysis released in 2005 contends the second attack in the Tonkin Gulf never happened.
                           主张
1990,
In the Persian Gulf, Iraq invades neighboring Kuwait. The following year, an American led war known as
          波斯湾
“Operation Desert Storm” drives Saddam Hussein's forces out of the oil-rich emirate. A U.S. led
  沙漠风暴行动                                                                酋长国
invasion of Iraq in the following decade topples Saddam from power.
                                         倒台
1943,
During WWII, a Japanese destroyer sinks a U.S. Navy torpedo boat commanded by future President John F.

Kennedy. Two on board the PT-109 are killed when the destroyer rams and cuts then-Lieutenant Kennedy's 
                                                               撞入                 上尉
boat in two, off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. Kennedy and the vessel's other survivors 
                     所罗门岛
cling to the wreckage and swim to a nearby island, where they are rescued.
固守
1923,
“America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy ...” President Warren
                                英雄的       治愈的        万能药        常态
G.Harding dies in San Francisco at age 57. Vice President Calvin Coolidge succeeds him in the White House.

And 1876,
Frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok is shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota
边界居民                                                                      沙龙
Territory, what's now South Dakota. 

Today in History, August 2nd, Camille Bohannon, the Associated Press.

bargain n. 特价商品； It’s really a bargain.
guarantee可有“保修单”之意
as well用在句末
be available to sb.为固定搭配，意为“对某人来说可用的，可得到的”
out of表示“……的外面”而outside指“超过某一个界限，范围等”。
away from表示距离，“远离”
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enact 制定
marginal 微乎其微
 Strategic Petroleum Reserve 战略石油储备
alternative sources of energy可替代性能源
stockpile n. 储蓄,积蓄,库存
          vt. 储蓄,贮存
exploit   vt. 剥削,开发,利用
          n. 功劳,功绩,功勋
endorse 赞成
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extradite  vt. 引渡,受…引渡
tribunal   n. 法官席,法院,法庭
detention center  拘留所
on trial 受审
Hague 海牙
pub  酒吧 酒馆
Bosnian  波斯尼亚的
genocide  种族灭绝
Serb  n. 塞尔维亚人
【听透VOA听力词汇】--经济贸易部分--Item100--利益纷争
be for sale 出售
hit the jackpot 获得了惊人的成功（American slang美国俚语）
a deal valued at 一项价值达……的生意
approve the deal批准这一宗生意
bid n.出价
shareholder 股东
board   n. 委员会,理事会,董事会,委员会;司,局,厅;木板,黑板
        v. 提供膳宿,搭伙;登上