Experts say hoarseness costs several billion dollars a year in lost productivity from people missing work.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

That was where the Union army had lost a battle to the Confederates one year before.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

The others lost their jobs because they were rated "minimally effective" for a second year.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

"I'd lost a lot of championships before that year, so that was a special game."

VOA: special.2010.06.02

But the guest said in the last year or two he began talking more about Islam and "lost his way" in a struggle with financial problems.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The World Health Organization estimates that malaria costs Africa an estimated $12 billion a year in health expenditures and lost productivity.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Over its six-year run, "Lost" won dozens of awards, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe for best drama series.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

One projection indicates that 23,000 jobs with direct or indirect ties to the space industry, could be lost in Florida within a year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

While the unemployment rate is rising, the pace of layoffs has slowed from early this year, when nearly three-quarters of a million jobs were lost in January.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

But men like 85-year-old Don Seki, who lost an arm to a burst of machine-gun fire, play-down his own heroism in helping to rescue the "Lost Battalion."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The Philippines this week said it is cutting rice imports because of high prices, even though the country lost more than a million tons of grain to typhoons this year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.17