Allen Sinai,Chief Global Economist at Boston-based Decision Economics,Inc., says the number of jobs created by the stimulus plan might be "a bit disappointing."

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

The decision late Wednesday from the Geneva-based body comes the same day as Germany and Austria announced their first confirmed cases of swine flu, raising the total number of countries affected to 10.

VOA: standard.2009.04.29

He said Ankara's decision to vote 'no' was also based,in part, on the timing of the announcement earlier Wednesday by the United States, France and Russia rejecting the fuel swap deal negotiated by Turkey and Brazil.

VOA: standard.2010.06.09

"A decision that I consider to be not only be unwise, but in fact based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us,and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before September 11,2001,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.25