Florence Joplin also got permission for her son to use a piano in one of the houses she cleaned in Texarkana.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Now,the United States Department of Agriculture has announced a program to help farmers who want to build hoop houses.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Many of these late nineteenth century houses would not have been built had it not been for a major tragedy.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

He says the current interest in straw bale houses is a direct response to the problem of climate change.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

To show that she could do more than just write stories, she wrote a book with Ogden Codman, "The Decoration of Houses."

VOA: special.2010.10.24

But there are also a surprising number of areas of empty land where houses used to stand.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

A man was smiling at me as he stood in front of one of the little houses.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

The company made a great deal of money buying land and building houses after World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

His speech to both houses of Congress followed a defeat last week for his Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

And a great many farmers still lived in houses, or cabins, made of rough logs.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

To build the houses, he fills a wood frame with tightly packed bales of straw.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

About once a year, houses made from adobe should be given a layer of mud.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

Adobe is shaped into bricks that are laid one on top of another and used as a low cost way to build walls and houses.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

You can stay in a room in one of these houses for the night.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Within a week, they were offered a plot of land between two houses.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

"We have a high percentage of unemployment. A high number of workers are sitting in their houses,not working.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

The area is a two-day drive from Addis without much in the way of inns or guest houses.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

(SAYING) A Fallujah resident said one of the houses destroyed belonged to a policeman killed two years ago he says victims were family members.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

"Many bodies along the streets, a lot of injured people, just lying around, houses are destroyed and very new and large buildings totally collapsed,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

Republicans were in disarray following the 2008 elections that produced a Democrat in the White House and a strengthening of Democratic control of both houses of Congress.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

The president noted that, in the Cayman Islands,for instance, a single address houses thousands of corporations, few of which have a physical presence on the Caribbean islands.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04