Under this system, the company paid the miners, then the miners paid the money back to the company in return for goods and rent.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

This week,travel back in time to explore the history of transportation in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

An exhibit launched in Washington looks back at this exercise in musical diplomacy.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Concerns about a double-dip recession were back in the news this week.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

This would surely be a stab in the back.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

The Obama administration is fighting back with a series of presidential events this week on health care, starting with the community meeting in New Hampshire.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

In fact,de Gallembert estimates the number of Muslim women wearing headscarves in France has grown since 2004, although there are no firm statistics to back this up.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

"What is wrong with going home for August and having town hall meetings, listening to our constituents and then coming back in September and doing this right,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Mr.Zardari has been criticized for staying at a family chateau in France and in luxury hotels in Britain during this trip, while millions back home have been affected by the flooding.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

"Since the European Union Naval Force arrived in the Gulf of Aden and Somali Basin in the Indian Ocean back in December 2008, this is the farthest hijacking that we're aware of.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

They were expecting a much stronger intervention by Obama last year,in 2009, when Obama stepped back from his demand for a complete settlement freeze and this led Palestinians to feel betrayed and abandoned."

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

that's not our goal," "What our goal has to be is to advance the clean energy solutions in this country that can strengthen our economy, put people back to work, diversify our energy sources."

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

President Zardari has been harshly criticized by some within the Pakistani community in Britain, as well as from back home, for taking this trip - especially at a time when Pakistan is experiencing the worst flooding in decades.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

"It was like a giant jigsaw puzzle and the more we started to unearth and peel back the onion of who this guy was and what happened to him in the past and trying to truly understand the reason why he would be so obsessed with a specific case once we start to uncover these things about him we realized that once we explain one set of circumstances we needed to go even further with another set of circumstances."

VOA: standard.2010.02.27