States that want to take part in the Race to the Top cannot have rules that bar performance-based pay for teachers.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Jane Ziegelman says from the nineteenth century on, immigrants would take difficult jobs that non-immigrants would not do.

VOA: special.2010.08.25

And he suffered from injuries and illness that reportedly led him to take many kinds of pain-killing medicines.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

But word leaked out that it was to take place in the town of Rhinebeck, about a two-hour drive from New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

They were more than two-thirds of the way to the moon on a flight path that would take them to a moon landing.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

This means that each student-writer must present information and also take a position.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

As Lincoln got on the train that would take him to Washington, he said: "I now leave, not knowing when -- or whether ever I may return.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

"What I'm really hoping to hear from you is several concrete steps that you're going to take moving forward that will be able to re-ignite my generation, re-ignite the youth who are beset by student loans.

VOA: special.2010.09.24

It is rather for us,the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that,from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain;

VOA: special.2011.02.07

Take care of this instrument, because your look,your face and everything you have - that is what you're constantly selling.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree that presidential and parliamentary elections will take place on January 24.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

In their letter the 14 lawmakers assert that, look, re-think this. is not a prudent step to take,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

The president went out of his way to assure them that he does not support a government take-over.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Mr.Brown said attacking al-Qaida had to go hand-in-hand with a strategy of building capacity so that Afghanistan can take care of itself.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14