1. 从物业费到倒卖税，共管公寓和合作公寓的业主经常抱怨，管委会要将他们榨干了。不幸的是，运营建筑的成本在短时期内不会下降分毫。

2. China's 16 listed banks have cut their dividend payouts for the past year amid slowing net profit growth.

3. 勇士的横扫，实际上让那些试图挑战勇士的球队无力追赶勇士的脚步，致使联盟在季后赛收入上损失惨重。于是，总决赛便成了战胜勇士的最后的希望，也是最后的机会。总有些愚蠢的人通过不断告诉你不要低估了勒布朗·詹姆斯来让你重燃希望。我看了所有五场詹姆斯在的总决赛，我现在客观的告诉你：詹姆斯知道自己赢不了。“我能做什么？他们赢了73场比赛，我打败了他们，于是他们引进了凯文杜兰特。”在凯文杜兰特用自己的冷血投射杀死系列赛之前，骑士还设法在三场比赛中夺得了一场胜利。但最后，骑士队虽然避免了横扫的尴尬，但他们结束赛季的方式也只能用虎头蛇尾来形容。

4. 华莱士对一切说“好”说了一年，然后写了这本书。这个尝试既促进了他的事业，也把他带进过邪教集会。不过，电影没说的是，华莱士曾在数不清的钓鱼网站注册。显然，一直说“好”在现实生活中可不是一帆风顺。

5. 华尔街、大街上和华盛顿的每一个人都在不断地忘记市场周期的基本原理。请记住：《笑傲股市》(How to Make Money in Stocks)作者、《投资者商务日报》(Investors Business Daily)的比尔?奥尼尔(Bill O'Neill)说，市场的上行周期平均为3.75年，下行周期平均为九个月。

6. ? Aid workers are worried about a food crisis in Haiti, where Hurricane Sandy killed 52 people last week. The UN is also concerned that flooding could lead to a sharp rise in cholera cases. At least 69 people were killed by Sandy in the Caribbean.

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1. The worries stretched from the global, such as Russian attempts to influence the US presidential election in 2016, to the local — concerns about users’ mental health and the drain on productivity as they drown in notifications and news feed posts.

2. ……被要求向面试官简单介绍自己，结果她没有什么可说的。

3. 单词confident 联想记忆：

4. 英国《金融时报》2017年高管教育排行榜列出了全球85个最佳定制课程和75个最佳开放课程。排名主要基于学员和客户的满意度以及学校收入增长、国际化程度和师资多样性等指标。

5. It was also the "most liked" tweet of the year, with 4.59 million likes.

6. She has modelled for numerous clothing companies including Glitzy Girl, Sally Miller and Purple Pixies and featured in magazines including Teen Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Seventeen.

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1. On the a monthly basis prices fell by an average 0.5 per cent.

2. Others will look for ways to use tech to help people spend less time online. Tristan Harris, a former Google employee, is building a following for his Time Well Spent movement, tackling what it describes as the “digital attention crisis” by encouraging designers to understand the subtle psychological forces they control. Tim Kendall, formerly of Pinterest and Facebook, is reported by Recode to have plans for a start-up focused on fighting device addictions.

3. 《巴克斯托姆》(Backstrom)，Fox，1月22日播出。去年，福克斯推出根据一部澳大利亚电视剧《法庭浪子》(Rake)，由格雷格·金尼尔(Greg Kinnear)主演，讲述一个自毁律师的故事。那部剧没成功，但现在Fox又试着推出了一部根据瑞典系列小说改编的自毁侦探的故事，由《办公室》(The Office)男星雷恩·威尔森(Rainn Wilson)主演。这部剧由Fox的系列剧《识骨寻踪》(Bones)的编剧哈特·汉森(Hart Hanson)主创，但在试播集里，威尔森饰演的巴克斯托姆看上去更像豪斯医生(House)，而不像《识骨寻踪》里的角色。