There's no research that says if you fire half the faculty you're going to get good results.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

Steve Hess at Moody's Investor Service says if lenders were really worried, they would raise the interest rates they charge on loans to the government.

VOA: special.2011.04.16

It's not as if you are looking at the Canada game as your first game,". "I mean those are important games.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

So it's much more targeted and it doesn't address HIV as if it's a generalized epidemic.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

President Nasheed has previously announced plans to buy a new homeland for his country's 350,000 citizens if the Maldives does eventually disappear below the waves.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

Some analysts are warning of dire consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians if Mr.Netanyahu's government does not relent and start working toward a two-state solution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Donors have agreed to scale back. But experts say donors can help the needy and a nation's farmers if they buy food for humanitarian aid locally rather than importing it.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

"We think because of the long term effect of the bone, there may be stress fractures that are not repairing and I think the bone is becoming brittle, and it's not exactly as if it occurs without any warning, but it occurs suddenly with minimal trauma."

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

The fort's commander asked Pryor if he would like the honor of firing the mortar that would begin the attack.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Fear of legal action alone,he said, "cannot justify an employer's reliance on race" if it hurts qualified individuals.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

Roosevelt would make Garner the vice presidential nominee if Garner's forces voted to make Roosevelt the presidential nominee.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

She says many people wonder how the country's history would have been different if one gunshot on one evening had not happened.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

A listener wanted to know if Billie Jean is considered a girl's name, or if it can be used as a boy's name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06