He was sworn-in as president seventy-six years ago during the Great Depression -- the worst economic crisis in the country's history.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

They found it easy to settle in a country that, until seventeen seventy-six, was a collection of British colonies.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Barack Obama has spoken repeatedly of Lincoln's influence in making it possible for the country to have its first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

Still,it is a welcomed vehicle in a country where many families of three or four people ride two-wheeled vehicles.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

The group's recent "State of the Air" report said Pittsburgh has the worst short-term fine particle pollution in the country.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

It is in Bloomington,Minnesota, in the north-central part of the country near the twin cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

He had observed that students at colleges across the country had been organizing "teach-in" demonstrations to protest the war in Vietnam.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

In nineteen seventy-six the economist Muhammad Yunus helped develop a research project in his native country of Bangladesh.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Still,this would only mean that there are community-level outbreaks in at least one other country in a different area of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

Over the years, they have been sung and played in every possible way -- from jazz to country.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

The goal is to end United States military operations in that country by the end of twenty-fourteen.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

He was the best-known Republican in the country at that time: Senator William Seward of New York.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

I mean there's a lot of agencies out there that specialize in third-world country brides, that are coming from poverty,uneducated, that kind of thing."

VOA: special.2011.02.14

But because of doctor shortages or other needs, some have been able to get visas without the required two-year stay in their home country.

VOA: special.2009.06.02