But some take effect quickly. For example,in six months the new law will bar insurance companies from denying coverage to children with pre-existing health conditions.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Gene Fowler wrote that Barrymore was considered an "eighty-six" at one drinking establishment,or bar.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

(Speaking in Polish) The owner,30-year-old Roman Gruchalski, explains that the bar plays on his own nostalgia for the past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

Efraim Inbar, director of Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Israel's Bar-Ilan University is pessimistic about prospects for a breakthrough soon.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

The bar's owner said the octopus has always been right so far - and he hopes he's right again.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

It would also bar insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions, and would limit their ability to impose large rate increases.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Last week an MDC supporter was killed for allegedly singing a pro-Tsvangirai song in a bar.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The bar is called Pewex, the name of a chain of hard-currency stores from the communist era where Poles could buy Western products if they had the dollars.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

St.Louis has two science cafs. The second one - sponsored by Washington University - meets once a month during the academic year at a bar called the Schlafly Bottleworks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

Other opposition parties,rights groups, anti-corruption campaigners and the Nigerian Bar Association have criticized the government over its handling of the multi-million-dollar cash-for-contract scandal involving U.S.company Halliburton and top Nigerian officials.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18

He was granted more than 600 patents. His ideas for processes or devices are used in bar-code scanners, automated warehouse manufacturing systems,fax and automated teller machines, the crying baby doll, and Sony Walkman portable cassette player.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18