The proposed law aims to expand community-based services for those who want to receive long-term care at home.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

But he says taking a long-term look at diseases can help provide information scientists might otherwise miss.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

They also may discuss plagiarism with their students at the start of every term.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Husbands and wives use this doghouse term when they are angry at each other.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

"But it certainly doesn't hurt. I think it makes people regard him with more respect, at least in the short term,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

The Mars-500 mission at Moscow's Institute of Biomedical Problems will test the psychological and physical effects of long-term isolation on humans.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

International ratings agencies say Thailand's credit rating is at risk unless long term political divisions are resolved.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

In the short term, analyst David Gergen believes the outbursts at the town hall meetings have put the Obama administration on the defensive.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Those teams,he said, are also looking at the possible impact - short and long term - of the dispersant that BP has been using.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Secretary Clinton says Afghanistan is at a critical moment in its history on the eve of the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai's second term.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

"If you look at things like infection,pre-term delivery, even gestational diabetes mellitus, they are all reduced with givng pregnant women higher doses of vitamin D."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Democrats and Republicans continue to argue what the true longer-term costs will be, with 10-year costs of the House measure put at more than $1 trillion.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

They'll come back at the beginning of September and hope to share not only their summer experiences, but also another term in Congress, and another year rooming together.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07