Some spend six years or more as residents before beginning private practice.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

Before beginning the show, director Dadi Pudumjee asked the audience to observe a minute of silence to honor the actors and puppet experts in Japan who may have suffered after last week's major earthquake.

VOA: special.2011.03.16

Fitzgerald says his randomized study provides additional support for previous studies that suggested doctors are sometimes waiting too long before beginning treatment for HIV-infected patients.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

the retention bonuses were put in place at the beginning of 2008, before AIG received any bail-out money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

General Myers spent four years as the top U.S.military officer, starting just weeks after the September 11 attacks in 2001, through the early successes in Afghanistan and Iraq and the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency, and ending in late 2005, just before the major outbreak of violence in Iraq and well before the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan during the last two years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16