Professor Sereno received fossilized remains of the creature three years ago from a private collector in the American state of Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

The Securities and Exchange Commission says a private company must report financial information if it has five hundred shareholders or more.

VOA: special.2011.01.07

The goal is to support a private space transportation industry that makes it easier and less costly to reach space.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Yet he tells us Covestor remains a private company after a few years because it is still too risky for most investors.

VOA: special.2011.01.07

She was staying at a private hotel that Montclin had chosen and paid to rent for a month.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

That is when a government takes ownership of a private business, often with the idea of selling it back to investors later.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

He asks what it meant. Blackwater was the name of a private security and military training company.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

In his opinion,the only real benefit for a private company is lower administrative and record-keeping costs.

VOA: special.2011.01.07

We have entered a private road that leads to the main house on the Biltmore Estate.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

The College Board says the average tuition at a private college was about twenty-six thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

And some doctors go into medical research, either at a university or with a private company.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Still,a private report said consumer confidence in the economy reached a two-year high this month.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

One year at a private medical college can cost forty thousand dollars -- or more.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Craig Venter led another effort to complete the human genome at a private, not-for-profit laboratory.

VOA: special.2010.03.23