And it expects that number to increase to forty-five billion dollars by the end of this year, even with the current economic downturn.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

This can be true even when the music has nothing to do with unions.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

"Even (Supreme Leader Ayatollah) Khamenei realized that they should not do this with a well-known journalist,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

"There are some in Washington today who seem determined to play the same old partisan politics, working to score political points, even if it means burdening this country with an unsustainable status quo,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

Lois Fischbeck of Maryland came to urge the court to ban capital punishment, even though the justices are not scheduled to take on a particular case this term that would deal with the issue directly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05