The storm gave two airports in the Washington,D.C.area their highest one-day snowfall totals for December.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Soldiers often say, We GId the place. And when an area looks good, soldiers may say the area is GI. Strangely,though, GI can also mean poor work, a job badly done.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

With demand growing,the D.C.area - including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs - has about 100 game-oriented technology firms.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

It made its backers rich. Financiers in the Washington,D.C., area also knew what canals meant to cities like Venice in Italy and Tsaritsyn - later called Stalingrad and Volgograd - in Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29