Health Affairs editor Susan Dentzer says the rapid advance of information technology, along with declining prices, presents what she calls a spectacular opportunity in poor and middle-income nations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

And a spectacular upset!

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Rolling Stone magazine placed the group's first album "Oracular Spectacular" eighteenth on a list of the top one hundred albums of the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

It is said the planned attack was guided by senior militants in Pakistan who hoped to mount a so-called 'spectacular' strike against the West.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Baitullah Mehsud and his network of fighters and suicide bombers have wreaked havoc in Pakistan with a series of spectacular terrorist attacks across the country.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

U.S.officials, including the number-two American commander here, Army Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby, say such occasional spectacular attacks are,in a way, evidence of the decline of al-Qaida in Iraq, which once staged dozens of attacks every day.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"Because a film like this can appeal to people who want to go for their thrills and spills and their big action spectacular and it will appeal to people who want to go and be stimulated intellectually.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

One of the things that a lot of observers have been concerned about is the fact that there could be a change in tactics away from the kind of spectacular and very difficult operations to conduct to operations that could be launched in far greater numbers and might have less individual impact but which in the aggregate could sow a great deal of terror.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05