The aim is to help lower interest rates on housing and other loans and improve credit conditions.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Material called a growth medium is put on the joint to keep it from getting dry and to help the two plants grow together.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

But there is one animal on Earth today that may help scientists learn about dinosaurs.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

The first is to help the Mexican government crack down on the powerful drug cartels that operate along the border.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Now,it is relying on China's cheap labor and the emergence of a consumer culture to help claw the world out of the financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

He initially supported U.N.intervention but worries that East Timor is becoming too dependent on outside help.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

She said with help from the Brazilian-led U.N.stabilization force, Haiti is also making strides on domestic security, and tackling corruption and the drug trade.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

Reif says this improved cooperation is expected to help the U.S.and Russia fight nuclear terrorism and work toward tougher sanctions on Iran for its nuclear activities.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Analysts say the resulting probe into Goldman Sachs investment practices could help President Barack Obama, who delivers a major speech Thursday on why financial reform is needed.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

And again,it is two-fold: one is,we want to help our colleagues in Mexico, but it does have an impact on safety and security in the United States."

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev echoed the seriousness of the situation, saying the government is doing everything it can to help people and also called on the police for assistance.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

He is calling on the U.S. to help plug the flow.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

"I wish there were more people like him putting a spotlight on how important it is to volunteer, to just help one another, try to put yourself in somebody else's position."

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

The secretary's remarks were echoed by Haitian Prime Minister Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis, who said Haiti is treading on fragile ground and that without help for economic growth, the consequences will be catastrophic.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

(Speech) Fujii says the government is saying goodbye to an old concept of growth, a concept that relied on large investments on public projects, an idea that whoever is making money should make more money to help the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

to say 'get real.' What is dangerous is to commit "This is extraordinary, to spend a whole lot of money that we might not have on a system that most certainly won't help when the world is changing, when we're facing new threats, where now more and more military experts are saying there are different alternatives."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30