Mr.Obama's budget numbers and deficit projections assume a return to moderate economic growth next year, with robust expansion in the years that follow.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

General Keen says U.S.troops are working to assume more responsibility for aid distribution, which will allow U.N.peacekeepers in Haiti to focus on security concerns.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

People often assume that Chopin was French - he spent half his life in France and is buried there in the famous Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

you have to assume they are in," He says the more advanced a country is in its use of computers and the Internet, the more vulnerable it may be.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

"It is complex difficult terrain, both the land and the people, it is a tribal society with a culture vastly different from what most of us are familiar with and it varies around the country, so you cannot assume what is true in one province is true in another,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.01