He died last year. By that time, hundreds of thousands of the filters were in use in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

Last year,he established Timeless Media, a for-profit company that pays for and extends the work of Playing for Change.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

He says the programs the fund supports saved at least three thousand six hundred lives every day last year.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

And he did it faster than the world record time Phelps set last year at the Beijing Olympics.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

But the guest said in the last year or two he began talking more about Islam and "lost his way" in a struggle with financial problems.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Mr.Hurd is married. He earned twenty-four million dollars last year.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Last year,he returned to the team.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Again he wore last year's Speedo Racer.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

He noted that poppy cultivation decreased 19 percent nationwide last year and is on track to drop even further in 2009.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

He says he spoke last year about helping them, adding that every effort should be made to enhance their authority.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

And then last year when I saw him, he had a company and it was worth several million dollars."

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Last week,he called for about to pay a fee to help repay taxpayers for last year's financial industry bailout.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

He had been elected head of the BDP and was serving as vice-president last year when then-president Festus Mogae retired.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

And even though he won at the national championships last year, the U.S.Ski and Snowboard Association decided not to fund him anymore.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

But last year, Freeman had a heart attack. He was told surgery in his hometown of Reno,Nevada, would cost close to $120,000.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Last month, he delivered a videotaped address to the Iranian people as they marked the Persian New Year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

"Last year,he chastised me a little bit for taking so much risk and just never really thinking about what I was doing."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

Specter had been a Republican senator up until last year, when he switched to the Democratic Party, with the backing of President Barack Obama.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

President Obama says he wants to avoid a repeat of last year's failure of several banks and other financial firms, which devastated the U.S.economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

It's a good thing Nathan Gelder knew the universal sign for choking when he was having lunch last year with his friend Kaiden Condos.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

That would be in keeping with legislation proposed last year by Vice-President Joe Biden when he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Last year,he says nearly 1.5-million TB patients were tested for HIV, an increase of 200,000.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

He notes this is an increase of 33 percent over the same period last year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

He says diamond processing is just one third of what it was last year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

He finished dead last. Nike dropped its African ski team experiment the next year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

"No one thought he would have the year that he had last year."

VOA: standard.2010.02.11