But the United States says deals governing the forty-seven thousand American troops in Japan are not up for renegotiation.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

He said that on that bus in nineteen fifty-five, "She sat down in order that we might stand up.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

In the winter of nineteen sixty-four, the Beatles packed up their electric guitars,drum kits, and rebellious ways and set off for America.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

He was still sitting up in the bed listening -- just as I have done, night after night.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

In the western United States, mountain snow provides up to seventy-five percent of all surface water supplies.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Finally,in April, eighteen sixty-three, Grant gave up all ideas of getting past Vicksburg without a fight.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

They found the HCAs in the meat marinated in spices had decreased up to eighty-eight percent.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

In nineteen forty-seven, eight theater groups showed up uninvited to the first Edinburgh International Festival.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Children's writer Edward Stratemeyer came up with the idea of Nancy Drew in nineteen twenty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"Rhonda Smith of Tennessee described how in two thousand six her Toyota-made Lexus sped up for a time to one hundred sixty kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Up in the mountains are clear lakes, quick-moving small rivers, and huge formations of rock.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

The World Bank and two European development banks agreed last week to provide up to thirty-one billion dollars in aid to central and eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

To safely capture up-close film footage of tornadoes, some project participants traveled in a seven-ton, armored tornado intercept vehicle directly into tornadoes as they formed.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

A CBS News and New York Times study found thirty-nine percent say the country is moving in the right direction, up from fifteen percent in January.

VOA: special.2009.04.11