Connecticut Yankees, as people in this northeast state are called, are known to be smart in business.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

As a result, that style of news reporting came to be called yellow journalism.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

By supporting nuclear energy, the president may be seeking common ground with Republicans who have called for building as many as one hundred new nuclear power centers.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

as Charlie Parker's followers called him. Parker knew those performances might be his last chance to re-claim the success he had gained only a few years earlier.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

And so,to the Germans of Pennsylvania, Saint Nicholas or Pelznickel was a man dressed in fur who came once a year with gifts for good children.Soon, people began to feel that the love and kindness Pelznickel brought should be part of a celebration honoring the Christkindl, as the Germans called the Christ child.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

They condemned the shooting as a hate crime and called for the perpetrator to be brought to justice.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

Leaders of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority quickly condemned the Tel Aviv shooting as murder and called for the gunman to be caught and punished.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

It called for flexibility on assembly lines, and mandated that problems be fixed as soon as they were discovered so mistakes would not be repeated.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

The country's Supreme Constitutional Court says he will not be inaugurated and will not be called president of the republic because he was not chosen through a democratic election as required by the constitution.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20