The U.S.plan includes setting up public-private investments to soak up as much as one trillion dollars in troubled loans and securities.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

The global financial crisis that began last year led even more investors to see gold as a haven in troubled times.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

"I know starting your careers in troubled times is a challenge,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

Others were not troubled. They had no way of finding out how terrible the lives of people were in Mulberry Bend.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

In the early 1990s, Sweden nationalized some banks and later sold their troubled assets, recovering some costs.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

Ann Landers continued to suggest that a husband and wife in a troubled marriage seek counseling.

VOA: special.2011.04.24

At the time, Lincoln was troubled by so many people seeking jobs in the White House.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

She says she was troubled by the many barriers her students faced in going to college.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Former President Cleveland had been troubled by the extra money in the federal treasury.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

There was something else that deeply troubled working men in the North.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens."

VOA: special.2010.02.06

The Oscar for Best Supporting Actress went to Mo'Nique, who plays the abusive mother of a troubled teenaged girl in "Precious."

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Evocative symbols of Europe's troubled past,such as the swastika, have long been illegal in a number of countries across the continent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

In the end, the British and other governments spent hundreds of millions of dollars bailing out troubled financial institutions.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

He said his administration has calmed a troubled economy, made progress on many domestic issues, and strengthened America's standing in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.02.06

Polanco and other civil rights advocates say that for years the judicial and political systems in Guatemala blocked attempts to reconstruct the country's troubled past.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Voter turnout was lower than expected, especially in the troubled south, in part because of Taliban threats to disrupt the balloting and retaliate against voters.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Banks that received money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program reaped unexpected profits and repaid billions in loans, resulting in a record for the Federal Reserve.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

The explosion occurred early Sunday in Pisheen, in the troubled Sistan-Baluchistan region bordering Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

She also spoke of Washington's willingness to work with allies to end violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta and the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled Kivu regions.

VOA: standard.2009.08.16

Donohue was particularly harsh over a proposal by the White House to tax bank transactions in order to recoup some of the money used to bail out troubled banks.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Analysts say by including private investors in the new initiative the government will be able to better evaluate the true value of these troubled assets and investors will have a stake in making a profit.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

But his message had to compete for attention with news that the giant insurance company American International Group,or AIG, paid out $165 million in bonuses to employees after the government agreed to bail out the financially troubled company.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21