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

I think it's much severe than what you have experienced in the past year or two for the general economic situation.

甚至比过去两年的经济形势,还要严峻。

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We did have a large,short position in subprime mortgage-backed securities, which has paid off enormously for the University and really helped protect assets in the past nine months or a year.

我们确实曾持有很多,次级抵押担保证券的空头,它们为耶鲁赚了不少钱,并且在过去的9个月或1年间,为资产保值发挥了实在的作用

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

VOA: special.2009.01.03

So this is perhaps a site that some of you have spent way too much time on last year, if not in the past week or so, com this is isawyouharvard.com.

很多同学去年的时候,在这个网站上花费了很多时间，可能上周还玩了，这个网站的网址是isawyouharvard。

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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

Economists say much of China's growth in the past year was the result of stimulus efforts, including rapid lending growth that funded new housing and factory construction.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Analyst Ali Alfoneh at the conservative American Enterprise Institute says there has been another development over the past year - the opposition has split into two differing factions.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

David Nthengwe,a spokesman for the United Nations agency UNHCR based in eastern Congo, says that approximately 400,000 have been displaced in the region by the LRA in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27