That costs the hospital about 6 million dollars a year.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

The Commerce Department says retail sales rose 0.6 percent in June, about twice what economists had expected.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

"It slashed U.S.and Russian strategic nuclear forces from 1990 levels of about 10,000 deployed strategic warheads each down to approximately 6,000 by the year 2001,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

The White House and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office,or CBO, project a federal deficit of about $1.6 trillion for the current fiscal year a record-high, although slightly less than had been projected a few months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25