"I think that our study points to ferroportin as a target for the development of cancer drugs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

The Costa Rican president described the development as a moment of opportunity for Mr.Zelaya and his opponents to try to come to an agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

These development projects increase interest from investors wanting to plant export crops such as rubber.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Its main goal is to use agriculture-based development to end hunger,reduce poverty and food insecurity,as well as increase opportunities for Africa to become a food exporter.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Yet,up to this day,(outside powers) have not contributed significantly to the establishment of (stability) and security, as well as economic and political development of the region."

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

The country had hoped to bring that figure down to 140 deaths per 100,000 births by 2015 as part of its commitment to its Millennium Development Goals,or MDGs.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

And that is again why it is so important that we just keep moving,". Secretary Geithner pointed to mortgage interest rates being at their lowest in history as a positive development.

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

The international community must support stable regions, for example Puntland, and offer long-awaited development incentives in order to attract the attention of other Somali regions that see the benefits as counter-weight to joining extremists,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

But he stressed the United States must combine its military might that has damaged al-Qaida during the past several years with other tools, such as diplomacy and development aid, as well as expand human intelligence to defeat an adaptable enemy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Government health departments nationwide are studying new strategies to protect maternal and child health, such as those outlined by the United Nations Millennium Goals, which calls for education, economic development and community empowerment to save lives and eliminate preventable suffering.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

At the spring meetings, many development activists will push for the IMF and World Bank to issue funds to poor countries as grants rather than loans, which they say could lead to a second debt crisis in Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

U.S.President Barack Obama has already outlined Washington's new strategy, to deal strategically with Afghanistan and Pakistan together, to focus on both military and civilian development efforts and to step up diplomacy by bringing in neighboring countries as part of the solution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"That will involve keeping countries happy with the division of labor as regards carbon trading, as regards how much they want to hold back their own industrial development, even though they say particularly many of the EU's new countries that they were poor for a long time, no different than the Chinese, that they have a right to develop their economy, that it is the rich countries in Europe that are more responsible for climate change than they are and they should get special treatment in any kind of EU position."

VOA: standard.2009.10.29