The Food and Drug Administration says there would be no need for special labeling if the salmon is found to have the same basic contents as other fish.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

"We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle, that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care."

VOA: special.2010.03.24

"GAVI's goal over the next five years, by twenty-fifteen, is to immunize millions more children and save an additional four million children's lives, purely by providing basic vaccines against diseases that are basically almost non-existent in rich countries, as well as providing new vaccines against pneumonia,diarrheal diseases and then hopefully HPV and some other vaccine-preventable diseases."

VOA: special.2011.06.15

He says these include X-ray machines, electronic imaging scanners, laboratory equipment and basic items, such as elevators for hospitals.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Johnson cites the Central African Republic as one country where children suffer from instability and lack of basic services.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Some people have lost their jobs and can no longer perform basic functions, such as driving due to bad outcomes from LASIK.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

It has experienced internal divisions and rising tensions in the past year, as major political parties struggle to agree on a basic political structure.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Students like Shelia Melvin say they are hoping to use their newly mastered computer and Internet skills to do such basic tasks as apply for a job online.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

The concert was also aimed at publicizing a World Cup related education initiative known as 1Goal Education, which FIFA and South Africa hope will ensure a basic education for as many as 72 million African children.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

women making up more than half of the U.S.population while occupying only 17 percent of the seats in U.S Congress, and constituting less than three percent of Fortune 500 company chief executive officers (SPEAKING) Madeleine Albright, who served as Secretary of State during the Clinton administration, pointed to the challenges women still face globally in achieving the same basic rights and dignity as men.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08