A college or university's international student office is a good place to start getting to know the school and the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

Two business leaders, Horace Moses and Theodore Vail, joined with Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts to start the group.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

They wanted to start a fight. They would wait for someone to be brave enough to try to hit it off.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

It was the same town where abolitionist John Brown had tried to start a slave rebellion a few years before.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Automatic faucets use an electronic sensor to start and stop the flow of water when people wash their hands.

VOA: special.2011.04.06

It's pretty much the same thing. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

There was enough space in the bone for the healthy marrow to start producing new red blood cells.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

To start the seeds inside, you can use a seed tray in your home or other shelter.

VOA: special.2009.04.28

Smithson wanted his money to be given to the United States to start an organization in Washington designed to increase and spread knowledge.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided more than one million dollars to start the program.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The Department gave one hundred thousand dollars to each of the accepted teams to start their projects.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

This helps the baby to start breathing and get settled in the new environment outside the mother.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Ken Irwin told how he got the idea to start a record company after meeting someone else who wanted to do the same.

VOA: special.2010.04.19

"One of the things the World Bank measured was how long it takes to start a business.

VOA: special.2010.05.10