"By suddenly having an actual mechanism to value these systems in dollars, it gives you a potentially very large new mechanism for countering the other financial and economic arguments."

VOA: special.2011.05.10

Usually a one-day event, the celebration continued for several days around the actual holiday.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

That means they take a drop of blood and they look at it under a microscope, and they can confirm that this was an actual case of malaria.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

But Ritz, who has both undergone and conducted SERE training, says there is a great degree of difference between training and actual interrogations, where harsh techniques may be combined and carried out for longer periods.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

I mean,how can we say that we want Karzai to do something about his brother's alleged narcotics activities, while apparently the CIA has been paying the same brother?" Former U.S.ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann tells VOA he believes President Karzai to be a decent man, but points out that he does not have a great deal of actual power outside of Kabul and has to be very careful about alienating some people.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17