Mister Branson says he plans to bring his son and daughter and his parents with him on the first flight.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

He says he was shocked by the way poor people in Port-au-Prince lived when he first visited in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Doctor Selanikio says he first recognized a need when he worked for the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

He says identifying human antibodies that will stop the ability of the virus to reinvent itself is the first step.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

He says a new system is needed to meet the speed and complexity of a twenty-first century global economy.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

He says he first heard about social media two or three years ago at a business meeting.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

After Gatsby's death,Nick Carraway, the storyteller,says: "I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first recognized the green light at the end of Daisy's boat dock.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

He says he laughed when some friends first told him about houses built of straw.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

He says it is a re-imagining of the first show with a modern touch.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

He says it is the first cell whose parent was in a computer.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

But the White House says he chose Ghana for his first presidential visit to Africa south of the Sahara because of what he considers its strong democratic system.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

He is African American and gay, and he says that at first, he did not take the nomination too seriously.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

First in line - a student from Essex - who says he waited a long time for this moment.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

He says agents working at airports, seaports and border crossings are often the first line of defense for victims.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

He says no one knows whether the second wave will be more severe than the first or will remain moderate.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

He says first,it was a strike against the local authorities, who militants see as being too loyal to Moscow.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The judge promised there would be one. But,he says,for that to happen, Karadzic must first appear in court.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

He started with light orchestral works in the first part, a concerto in the middle, and says double bass player Larry Wolfe.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

If the crash had not happened,he says, Komorowski would almost certainly have won in the first round.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

Liberian student Roland Doh says he first admired Jackson when he saw him dancing on television.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

He says it was not the first time fighting in Burma had forced villagers to flee to Thailand and would not be the last.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09