On the South Side of Chicago, I worked with families who had lost jobs and lost hope when the local steel plant closed.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

They wanted strong policies to punish the southern states that left the Union and lost the war.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

They also recorded a song about fallen leaves, darker days and lost love.

VOA: special.2009.11.09

The World Health Organization estimates that malaria costs Africa an estimated $12 billion a year in health expenditures and lost productivity.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

A conflict the U.S.fought and lost some 40 years ago has come back to haunt a young president, his advisors,his generals, and the country he governs.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party won just 38 and lost 10.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

U.S.defender Angela Ruggiero - who has played in four Olympics and lost to Canada twice - says that she and her teammates did everything they could, but Canada was too good.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Specter's announcement is the latest setback for Republicans, who lost control of the Senate and House of Representatives in 2006 and lost the White House and more seats in Congress last year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

"The lives that our young men and women both American and British have put at risk and lost are very much on our minds,and we intend to get this as right as its humanly possible."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

But he missed from about two and a half meters, and then lost in a playoff to American Stewart Cink.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

He stared at the birthmark. And slowly,with every breath that came and went, it lost some of its brightness.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

But the costs were great. More than six hundred thousand men of the North and South lost their lives.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

He found that conditions had become worse for many people who had lost their land and fled the Dust Bowl.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

Ms.Adams says the name of the festival was influenced by the book "Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found" by Suketu Mehta.

VOA: special.2011.03.16