"The reason they get so much money is because people love sports in the United States and elsewhere.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

DDT and other pesticides had become popular with the public and the government because they were so effective.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

I felt close to that kind of thing because I had denied it and had been left away from it so long.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

And because she is so important, she sometimes gets to rub shoulders with the top officials.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

"I don't think President Obama and the Democrats were expecting to have to spend so much time on health care because it is dragging on.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

It makes sense for people to sing rather than say these words, because the emotions are so huge, the conflicts are so large and so real."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Some men were afraid of him because he was so rich and powerful.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Lennon and McCartney, because I listened to so much of it growing up.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

I think it's an incredibly exciting time because we can now draw on so many different sources that we are influenced by, and I sort of feel like anything goes."

VOA: special.2010.07.19

And so you are really good friends with like all the people you're in class with, because you know them since like four years and you have all classes together with them."

VOA: special.2009.11.05

"And so they would travel to places where certainly white people in the thirties and forties would not work too much in black communities, because there was so much antagonism between black and white at that time racism toward African Americans.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

"We are so happy for this qualification because it is so important for we Ghanaians and the whole of Africa."

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

We like them and they like us also, so that is why we love this area here, because of the people,nothing more,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

"They can't believe what's happening. We're trying to do the best that we can spiritually and emotionally, because there are so many losses."

VOA: standard.2009.10.05