It might help some get into a top college, but only if they have above-average scores in the first place.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

It was the first in the world. Since then, about one hundred nations have followed that example.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

"In fact,I am not the first to have said it is the most difficult legislation probably in the last century because it affects literally everybody in America."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

"I think that the proposal that the President made in Geneva to have Iran withdraw its enriched uranium, or a good portion of it, outside Iran is a positive first step in that direction and I support and appreciate the President's ongoing efforts to unite the international community to address the challenge of Iran's attempts to become a nuclear military power,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.30