The idea would be similar to the Resolution Trust Corporation set up by the government in 1989.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Enacted on November 20,1989, the U.N.Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified international human rights treaty.

VOA: standard.2009.11.22

But when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union dissolved in 1989, the western alliance's main reason for being disappeared.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

By 1989,at age 33, he'd achieved that goal, becoming the first person to walk to both the North and South Poles.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

The reason: Pakistan's army felt abandoned when the U.S.lost interest in the region following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

Despite the rain,crowds gathered at the Bornholm Bridge, the first checkpoint in the Berlin Wall to open the night of November 9,1989.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Poland's historic roundtable talks between the banned Solidarity trade union and the ruling Communist Party took place in the spring of 1989.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Within weeks,the Communist Party leadership resigned, and dissident writer Vaclav Havel, who had spent years in prison, was named president on December 29,1989.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Before the Convention on the Rights of the Child came into force in 1989, most of the world thought children should be seen and not heard.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

In July 1989, Mr.Gorbachev formally renounced the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, a policy which had justified the Soviet imposition of communist party rule in the East European satellite states.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Both paved the way for what would happen in Germany in 1989.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

(Speech) The former Czech Republic president said the changes in 1989 were "undoubtedly aided by people who,for long years" tried to show the world "the real situation" in what was then Czechoslovakia.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

"So,by the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, it fell not under a barrage of artillery, but under hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had lost faith in the ideas,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

The vice president said that the world watched in awe and admiration in 1989 as the men and women across the region broke the shackles of repression and emerged as free people.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

And,in 1989,the Berlin Wall collapsed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The time period covers 1989 to 2007, and the countries include - there are fourteen countries, just about every country for which we could collect the data included in the study: Those which were predominantly Muslim countries.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05