But U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the targets are too far in the future and that more needs to be done sooner.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Her future seemed limitless. Then,in nineteen seventy-seven, Miss Jordan suddenly announced she was retiring from Congress and returning to Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

The crisis at Japan's Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has raised questions about the future of the nuclear energy industry.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

Project scientist Harris Lewin from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign predicts there will be more laboratory cows in the future.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

No future president would be safe, they said, if opposed by a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

But Mr.Ker-Lindsay says Serbs are conflicted because they understand that their country's future has to be a part of Europe.

VOA: special.2011.05.28

He says international students should know that this can affect them in the future if they try to re-enter the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

They hope that future synthetic cells can make useful bacteria for products like bio-fuels or vaccines, and to clean up polluted water.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

In nineteen eighty-four Cesar Chavez made this speech, predicting the future success of his efforts for Latinos.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

Mr.Mack also says developments in artificial intelligence could lead to a future where disabled patients could be cared for by a voice-activated robot.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

The Spanish government promised the Cuban people equal rights and self-rule -- but in the future.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

"We never will move out of the crisis if we do not re-establish confidence, which means we have to establish signposts for the future."

VOA: special.2009.01.23

The writer says she saw these Indians as time-travelers moving away from tradition and an eventless youth, heading into an exciting and high-tech future.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

Heavy government debt only adds to unease about the future after the so-called Great Recession.

VOA: special.2009.05.29