But since last year there has been little activity in the seven hundred fifty billion dollar market for commercial mortgage securities.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

But the next year, the Academy decided to keep the names of the winners a secret until the awards ceremony.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

But a three-year study showed that beetles like to feed more on the transgenic plants, increasing cases of wilt disease.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Experts say job losses might slow later this year, but the unemployment rate could rise until the middle of next year.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

The I.M.F.predicts developing economies will continue to grow for the year, but only by about one and one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

But possibly the biggest story of this year's World Cup is the history of the nation holding the huge event.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

It represents more than a million students every year who entered ninth grade but do not complete twelfth grade.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

American schools provided aid to almost half of foreign graduate students during the last academic year, but only ten percent of undergraduates.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

But the seventeen-year-old decided not to go to college but instead play for the National Basketball Association.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

BOY: "Yeah." SECOND GIRL: "It varies every year but it's ranked really high. And all the colleges.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

But the thirty-four year old actor has taken on an important role in real life as well.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Alaska and Hawaii are very different states, but they shared attention last year during the presidential campaign.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

But they arrived too late in the year to plant crops, and their supplies nearly ran out.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

But any time of year, visitors to the nation's capital can see a number of memorials that honor members of the armed forces.

VOA: special.2009.05.25