"In recession, when you expect prices of other items to come down like automobiles and electronics and many other things, gold is the only commodity where prices are going up like anything."

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down,down, just like one of those poor,tired leaves."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

And I tend to sit down and improvise. Within those improvisations certain motives and ideas will come about that I like."

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Plantings in the wetlands help hold down the soil against the forces of erosion, like wind and water.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

" People may feel more like they are losing it when they are "down in the dumps."

VOA: special.2009.10.25

Some of his music sounds like feel good folk and some sounds like down home blues.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

From a cave room you can see far up and down the canyon and imagine what life was like there seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

But,like many places affected by the recession, the numbers were down in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Electromagnetic energy travels almost like an ocean wave - up and down,up and down.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

Alfred tried to sound big, but deep down he was like a child.

VOA: special.2010.09.11

And the next minute you would see that frog dancing in the air and then come down all on his feet and all right, like a cat.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

At last,after two hours, she sat down and ate like other people.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

"It was like looking down into an open grave," he said later.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Then he would fall down on the floor again like a ball of dirt and start rubbing the side of his head with his back foot as if he had no idea he had been doing any more than any frog might do.

VOA: special.2009.08.29