One is falling prices down by one-fourth since two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Stewart returns as Bella and says the year since the original Twilight film has turned her character's life upside-down.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

British airspace has been closed down for the first time since the September 11,2001 attacks on New York.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

The government has cracked down very severely since the violence there some months ago against religious leaders and others of the Muslim faith."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

We've lost 90 percent of those since 1950. I began,as we surfed down the coast, to see where the resorts were put in.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

This was highly unusual, since most places in the South have tried to paint over or tear down remnants of their segregationist past.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Since a deadly bombing attack on hotels in Jakarta last year, Indonesian security forces have tracked down the militants responsible and prevented other attacks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

The counterterrorism operation in Chechnya was instituted in 1999, when Russia sent troops for the second time since the collapse of the Soviet Union to put down a local separatist movement.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

China grew at a blistering pace of 10.7 percent in the final quarter of 2009, but the government has since placed curbs on lending to reduce inflation and cool down an overheated economy.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Political analysts say Mr.Obama has little choice but to try and restart the debate over health care since his poll ratings have gone down in recent months, both personally and in terms of his handling of the health care issue.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04