Late Thursday, the government released the results of a special examination, so-called stress tests, of the nineteen largest banks.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

The company then sends the workers a text or e-mail message so they can respond quickly to an offer.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

So,a few months before the presidential election of eighteen ninety-two, America's agricultural Alliances held a joint convention in Omaha,Nebraska.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

In two thousand eight Norway opened a so-called doomsday vault designed to be secure from any threat -- even an asteroid strike.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

So you can read on an iPad or a touch-screen tablet, but the e-book readers are less expensive.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

So,Republican Congressman William McKinley of Ohio proposed a new tariff bill -- one that would raise import taxes higher than ever before.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

It was a very strange- looking instrument, so he hid it inside the body of a traditional guitar.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

But it did not want to violate a limit on so-called electioneering communication by corporations and unions within thirty days of a primary election.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

She also took a higher-paying job supervising a public eating place so she could save money.

VOA: special.2011.06.12

Also this week, the Obama administration named a former Justice Department official as so-called border czar.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

Warhol used a very smooth painting method so the artwork almost did not look hand-made.

VOA: special.2010.09.05

So he created a non-profit group, the Playing for Change Foundation two years ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

He loaned twenty-seven dollars of his own money to a group of women so they could buy the materials they needed to make objects to sell.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

So,these words just get an -ay, or sometimes a -way, sound on the end.

VOA: special.2009.12.04