Independent of those things, the findings still showed that optimists had less of a chance of dying during the eight-year period.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

During this period,many experts warned of mass starvation in the developing world where populations were expanding faster than crop production.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

She says one possibility is a decrease in the number of school nurses during the period they studied.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Nash studied the works of seven important painters who lived during a one hundred year period, a time frame similar to that of jazz.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

Their advice may be all the more helpful during this period of economic recession.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

Many people say he represents the spirit of growth in America during this period.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Scientists say it formed when high sea levels flooded the middle of North America, splitting the continent in two for millions of years during the late Cretaceous period.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

"In the moratorium just announced by the government of Israel, there will be no new housing construction starts during the 10-month period.,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

We all know that overseas development assistance allocated to agriculture dropped from 18 percent in 1978 to just over four percent in 2008, The amount of money spent by developing countries on agriculture during that same period also dropped sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The admiral says the situation in Iraq seemed impossible to resolve a few years ago, and,although the two countries are very different,and progress in Iraq is not a guarantee of progress in Afghanistan, it does give him reason to be hopeful about Afghanistan - even during the current period of heavy violence and at best,slow progress.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22