He points to a big drop in the number of planned job cuts announced by employers over the past six months.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

In the past, numbers in the financial records of a company were written in red ink to show a loss.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

Randolph Roth studied homicide rates over the past four hundred years in parts of the United States and western Europe.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

This group has been growing faster than any of the religious groups in America over the past twenty years.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Bourke-White was no longer satisfied just to show the products of industry in her pictures, as she had in the past.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Today we look up into the skies to explore the past and present of the tallest buildings in the world.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

In the United States, smoking rates are down from the past, but cigarettes still cause about one-fifth of all deaths.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Gannett,the nation's largest newspaper publisher, has cut more than one-fifth of its jobs in the past two years.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

The Academy's goals are to bring attention to the great work of poets in the past and today.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

The Global Heritage Fund says over seventy percent of the environment in this area has been lost in the past ten years.

VOA: special.2010.11.03

I was excited myself. I had visited Guyana as a reporter a number of times in the past.

VOA: special.2011.01.08

But Congress has put more into the budget of the national park system in the past three years.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

In fact,Mississippi has had the highest rate of obese adults in each of the past five years.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

In the past,the six thousand members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted for the one film they liked best.

VOA: special.2010.03.01