A report from last year said women business owners are responsible for three trillion dollars a year in economic activity.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Organizers of the World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas say attendance was up twenty percent from last year.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

That was down from last year, when more than three thousand walkers raised almost seven and a half million dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

The group reported in March that employers expected to increase hourly wage offers for college interns by five percent from last year.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

This is back-to-school season. But the National Retail Federation says school-related sales are down from last year.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

That was down from last year, but still about twenty-five percent more than ten years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

But early reports suggest that participation was up at least ten percent from last year.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

NACE says that is up a little from last year.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

"The prices have come down to a real sweet spot of around which is down around 20 percent from last year,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

At the same time, four Tier-Three countries from last year were upgraded in recognition of their anti-trafficking efforts Algeria,Moldova,Oman and Qatar.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

"Two-thirds of the respondents remembered their favorite brand advertiser from last year's Super Bowl, but only 39 percent recalled the winning team,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

The United States has 62,000 troops in Afghanistan, nearly double the number from last year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told VOA that huge problems remain from last year's war, including the large number of people displaced by the fighting.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

The U.N.Deputy Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Juba,South Sudan,Lise Grande, says the number of internal conflicts in the semi-autonomous region has risen from last year's levels.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

That results from last year's landmark agreement signed on civil nuclear cooperation.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

So he says if he makes five sales a day he can get by. Tassembedo passes by one lady, Salimata Ouedrago, wearing the Women's Day cloth from last year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

On Memorial Day,the day Americans remember the fallen, the president or vice president traditionally lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown - this is the scene from last year.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

between January the 1st and the 22nd May this year, a further 166,000 people had been expelled, which is actually an increase of 42 percent in the same period from last year."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The economic leaders issued a statement saying although most economies are now recovering from last year's financial crisis, the recovery remains fragile and growth over the next few quarters is likely to be uneven.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

A statement noted that while food prices have decreased from their peak last year, they remain high in historical terms.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Last year, Google said a cyberattack from China had attempted to get information from the Gmail accounts of human rights activists.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

The Department of Education reported last year that about two-thirds of graduates from four-year colleges had student loan debt.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

A city report says economic activity last year totaled almost three billion dollars, a four percent decrease from two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

It could be a sign that GM has recovered from the bankruptcy and restructuring it went through last year.

VOA: special.2010.11.17

They say funding dropped from about nine hundred thirty million dollars in two thousand seven to eight hundred seventy million last year.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

A spokesman for the Convention and Visitors Bureau,Steve Lewis,says economic activity last month was down five percent from February of last year.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The electronics industry is hoping a new crop of products will help it recover from an eight percent decrease in sales last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.26