An assistant professor who receives tenure becomes an associate professor and may later be appointed a full professor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

He is the associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

VOA: special.2011.06.02

A former close associate of Prime Minister Meles,Gebru Asrat, is a vice-chairman and spokesman for the Forum.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Sherburne Abbot is Associate Director for Environment, Science and Technology Policy at the While House.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

"And we have all grown to associate the odor of chlorine, for example, with cleanliness.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Some Papua New Guineans associate AIDS and HIV with witchcraft and sorcery and there have been reports of infected people being thrown into rivers, buried alive in graves or being starved to death.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

Team USA Associate general manager Dave Poile says only five of the players considered for the team had Olympic experience, and only seven of them were even alive when Team USA won its last hockey gold 1980 in Lake Placid,New York.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Peter Pham, Associate Professor of Justice Studies, Political Science and Africana Studies at James Madison University, says conditions in Somalia threaten security and stability of the Horn of Africa: "Even without toppling the TFG, al-Shabaab has already achieved a major objective by securing a territorial base from which like-minded militants and terrorists can carry out attacks elsewhere, especially against targets in the Arabian Peninsula as well as participating in the current violence against Somalis,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.26