She is a former assistant Treasury secretary currently at the management consulting company McKinsey.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

Sankoh,a former army corporal and photographer, led the first attacks on villages in a diamond-rich province of Sierra Leone in 1991.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

The nation, a former Australian colony, has a rich culture, where more than 850 indigenous languages are spoken, more than 10 percent of the world's total languages.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Although the revised plan involves anti-ballistic missiles installed at a former air base in Poland, defense experts say Moscow perceives the new project as less threatening to its security.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Joining the president at the podium were three unemployed Americans - a former auto dealership parts manager, a former fitness center employee and a former real estate agent - whose government support has run out or is about to expire.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

"As a former prosecutor, commercial litigator, district court judge and appellate judge, she certainly brings a wealth of unique experience."

VOA: special.2009.07.18

The Union military commander for Ohio was General Ambrose Burnside, a former commander of the Army of the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

It carried the man who became the first human to step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, a former X-15 pilot.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

They are a black man named Joe Christmas, and a former minister,John Hightower, who has lost his belief in God.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

John Coates -- himself a former trader -- wondered if,over all, men with more testosterone made more successful traders.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

International banking lawyer Ernie Patrikis, a former vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, explains why.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

Some lawmakers are proposing to renew a former ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines, like what the gunman had.

VOA: special.2011.01.15

But she also finds a former lover there -- and finds that she still has feelings for him.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

One of them was Louis Wigfall, a former United States senator from Texas, now a Confederate officer.

VOA: special.2009.08.13