This year, the Center for Plain Language is holding its first contest for best and worst language use.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

American ticket sales the first weekend it was released made "New Moon" the third best-selling movie on record.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

Hepburn won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, "Roman Holiday,"

VOA: special.2009.10.16

President Bush offered best wishes to Barack Obama, who will be the nation's first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

He won his first Grammy Award in nineteen eighty-nine for best country male vocal performance.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

For the first time since nineteen ninety-two, the best picture nominees include an animated film.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

He is the first African American to direct a film nominated for best picture.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

Emperor Norton the First soon became the best known man in San Francisco.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Her best guess is that some schools with a lot of technology will be the first to use them, but only in addition to their traditional books.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

became a national best-seller. One hundred fifty years after "On the Origin of Species" first appeared, it remains one of the most influential and debated books ever written.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

This movie earned Hepburn her first Academy Award for Best Actress.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

The study found that the main shoot grows the best of all not because of its position at the top of the plant, but mostly because it got there first.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

It became her first best-selling book.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

His CD,"Together Through Life", is one of the five albums vying for the very first Best Americana Album Grammy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.24

He earned his first Grammy with the Spanish version of his 1992 debut album, which became the best-selling Latin album that year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.02

In 2008,he won his first two awards with his band,The Workers, for Best Blues Album of the Year and Best Blues Band of the Year.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04