In a speech to members of the American Medical Association at their annual meeting in Chicago, the president spoke in stark terms.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

After a year of shrinking output, the U.S.economy grew last quarter at a 3.5 percent annual rate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

Fears of a major outbreak of swine flu during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca have not materialized, according to Saudi Health Minister Abdullah al-Rabeeah.

VOA: standard.2009.11.29

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said he was still hopeful that talks with the Japanese would lead to a negotiated settlement whereby Tokyo would abandon its annual hunt in the Southern Ocean.

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

One of those scientists. Kim Cecil,from the University of Cincinnati She was part of a team of researchers who took annual blood samples from several hundred lead-exposed children for more than 20 years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

Briefing reporters here, State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said the "annual exercise" in the General Assembly obscures the fact that the United States is a leading source of food and humanitarian relief aid to Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The Tea Party express bus tour will make its way to Washington over the next several weeks and plans to arrive in the nation's capital for a rally on April 15, the national deadline day for citizens to file their annual income tax returns.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

"It does not really matter because in the best case scenario we have today,we will still have a moderate virus that is projected to cause several million deaths extra deaths than the usual influenza annual mortality, which means that even in the best-case scenario, we do have an emergency on our hand,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.04