The general reportedly is asking for as many as 40,000 additional troops a figure Kerry said is too high.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

It earned 2.6 percent over costs last year, a figure Baker says is unsustainable.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But they refused to commit themselves to a figure on helping developing nations battle climate change, saying they would wait to see what other countries offered first.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

"At noon we were stuck in a muddy road about as nearly as we could figure, ten kilometres from Udine.

VOA: special.2011.06.26

A colorful figure of a dragon with big teeth attracts attention to information about orchids in Sri Lanka.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

One of Carlene Stephens' favorite artifacts is a four hundred fifty-year old carved figure from Germany.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

And I know how long a piece they want. Then I daydream a lot, trying to figure out what might be interesting for that group to do."

VOA: special.2010.07.12

"One of the programming problems was try to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

But we are going to need you, not just here today, but you're going to have to go home and take some of what you've learned here and teach your families and folks -- the other kids in your schools who haven't had a chance to come, and figure out how you guys can get other people in your lives moving."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Ice dancers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue provided a welcome relief when they won gold in the figure skating this week.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, a key figure behind this week's aid package, will visit Mexico early next month along with U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

We'll figure a wayto lead the tracker away somehow. I don't know. But we have to do something.

VOA: standard.other

A more accurate figure will emerge next year when the five-yearly nationwide health survey is taken.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Much historic controversy pivots around the figure of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin,who butchered millions of his own citizens in a bloody campaign to consolidate power.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25