His goal is to increase the percentage of college graduates from forty percent to sixty percent by the year twenty-twenty.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

The report says temperatures are estimated to increase by several degrees Celsius in the next one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

The group reported in March that employers expected to increase hourly wage offers for college interns by five percent from last year.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The group says the cremation rate is expected to increase to almost fifty-nine percent by two thousand twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

more important than ever. The world's largest economies promised to increase the size of the fund by about five hundred billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

They said the overall strength of storms measured by wind speed might increase two to eleven percent by the year twenty-one hundred.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

And it expects that number to increase to forty-five billion dollars by the end of this year, even with the current economic downturn.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Its aim is to increase public awareness about environmental issues by working with other organizations.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

They say that some states have lowered their standards in order to increase student scores on tests required by the No Child Left Behind Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

He says that in the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists estimate that climate change has caused temperatures to increase by two or three degrees Celsius over the past fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

The increase appeared to be driven by a 1.8 percent spike in wholesale prices, largely due to higher energy prices.

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

But Nash says that as time goes by, American forces will be able to increase training opportunities and support for Iraqi soldiers.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

The hope is that by unburdening banks of these assets, they will increase lending to potential home buyers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Mr.Mubarak is due to visit the White House, later this month,and U.S.aid to Egypt is set to increase by around 25 percent,this year.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

A survey by Harris Interactive, a public opinion research firm, found that nearly plan to increase their charitable giving once the economy improves.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

The EU says it hopes to increase its aid levels to about seven tenth of one percent of its gross domestic product by 2015.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Nuru Design plans to increase its customer base tenfold by the end of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

The government has also submitted legislation that would increase the excise tax on beer by an average of 50 percent per year from 2010 to 2012.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

has slowed slightly. Analyst say it's due in part to the economic downturn, tougher border enforcement and an increase in workplace raids by police looking for illegals.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

She credited the government in Luanda for moving to reduce corruption in the oil sector by publishing revenues on line and working with U.S.officials to increase transparency.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10

The U.S.is expected to have by the end of this year, but that may increase if General Stanley McChrystal asks for additional troops, and President Obama approves it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"The forecasts I've seen and this is from a research firm called Insight Media, forecast sales to increase from 3.3 million this year to 50 million by 2015.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Ted Dagne,African Affairs Specialist with the Congressional Research Service, predicted that violence is likely to increase in coming months as the Islamist group al-Shabaab, backed by foreign fighters, attempts to oust the transitional government.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

According to the USA Today newspaper, the Obama Administration estimates that opportunities in energy and environmental occupations will grow by 52 percent by 2016 - compared to just a 14-percent increase in other fields.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13