It got its nickname, The Garden State, because New Jersey truck farms once provided vegetables to those big cities.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The movie has been a big success. And it has introduced "Star Trek" to a new generation of fans.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

New profits and freedom from the pay limits tied to federal aid mean bankers can again receive big bonuses.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

In nineteen seventy, James Conaway wrote a crime novel called The Big Easy. The story was set in New Orleans.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

The head of the New York Conventions and Visitors Bureau decided to call the city, The Big Apple.

VOA: special.2011.07.10

The race to save two of America's big three carmakers is entering a new and intense period.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

In the early nineteen hundreds, there was a dance hall in New Orleans called The Big Easy.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

New York,which always thinks big, was called The Empire State because of its natural wealth.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

New Wal-Mart stores have had a big effect on small communities in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

After the war,Lewis moved to New York City and played in Dizzy Gillespie's big band.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

New Jersey is between the big cities of New York, New York and Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

He says John Fitz Gerald, a writer for a New York newspaper, used the name The Big Apple to mean New York in the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

The big steamship companies also helped industry to get more of the new workers.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Both stars played for the New York Cosmos in front of big crowds.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

This week, Britain's finance minister announced a new tax on big banks.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

That's New York." In horse racing, the expression meant "the big time,"

VOA: special.2009.12.27

The new CD, "Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King,"

VOA: special.2009.08.28