Other education stories this past year included the deaths of college test preparation pioneer Stanley Kaplan and music educator Bess Lomax Hawes.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

The State Department says it is working to reduce visa delays that have affected foreign science students and researchers over the past year.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

You can find other reports from the past year on our web site at voaspecialenglish.com.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

But Dan Gallant did get the Caf to modernize one way this past year.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

They reported fewer orders and fewer offers to teach classes over the past year.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Over the past year, groups that care for homeless people have seen an increase in the number of people in need because of the nation's economic crisis.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

But new eggs have appeared in two nests over the past year.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

Today we remember six interesting people who died in the past year.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

But the wait time has increased again over the past year.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

The company sold nearly in the past year,he says, and more than 100 million Happy Meals with Apple Dippers since 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The past year brought the first decade of the new millennium to a close with several long-time champions reasserting themselves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

The track was the second single from Jason's Wide Open album to reach Number One during the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

They will join an estimated half million people who fled their homes in the past year and still have not returned.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

Accepting the award, she talked about the entertainment business and some of its stars who have died in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

Violence in Iraq has dropped significantly during the past year, but insurgents continue to stage sporadic attacks on security forces and civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Gold,whose prices have surged in the past year, is seen as a hedge against a slumping dollar.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

It also says that a truce will allow the rebels to recover from the devastating defeat they have suffered in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

So,for the past year, he reviewed something no historian ever had: Bolivar's medical records dating back 10 years before his death in 1830.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

For many investors in Asia, gold's role as a source of safety and value has been reinforced over the past year of economic uncertainty.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

It has experienced internal divisions and rising tensions in the past year, as major political parties struggle to agree on a basic political structure.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Several of Science magazine's notable breakthroughs of the past year focused on astronomy and space.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

But in the past year, the army has successfully pushed them out of their strongholds.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

BHP Billition said in a statement that government stimulus measures imposed over the past year "appear to have supported a gradual return to normalized global trade."

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

He says prices especially for Thai rice are being pushed higher by new customers coming into the market after the economic slowdown of the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

"Everyone's unemployment rates have gone up in the past year, year and a half.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The Russian national budget relies heavily on taxes from the sale of oil and other natural resources, and oil prices have dropped sharply over the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25