But Mr.Obama's critics point out that the $100 million in cost cutting is miniscule - just a tiny fraction of one percent of the federal budget deficit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

But an explosion in space cost him the chance to reach the moon -- and nearly cost the crew their lives.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

He would like to put a low-cost laptop in the hands of every child, especially those living in extreme poverty.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

As a result, they used the frogs in fast-acting, low-cost pregnancy tests for women during the nineteen-forties and fifties.

VOA: special.2010.06.29

In February,Senator Lamar Alexander warned higher education leaders that they risk rejection unless they lower the cost of attending college.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

In other vaccine news, scientists in Britain say they have found a simple, low-cost way to store vaccines at high temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

"Probably,for a one-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar- a-year employee it would cost me in the range of ten to fifteen thousand dollars."

VOA: special.2011.05.13

All these things cost money. So a plains farmer had to grow crops that were in big demand.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Bikes for the World collects bicycles and delivers them at low cost to community programs in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

A recent story in a local agricultural newspaper said the first robot cost one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Judge Wright says the cost of gathering lots of scientific evidence can limit the use in real-life trials.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

It did not cost much to build. And it did not look like a traditional house in America.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

But now a program called Kilimo Salama, or safe farming, offers low-cost insurance in parts of Kenya.

VOA: special.2010.05.11