Last week, the government lost its case against two managers at Bear Stearns, the first investment bank to fail last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

The Department of Education reported last year that about two-thirds of graduates from four-year colleges had student loan debt.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

That was mostly when fuel prices were so high last year that people in California were not driving to her stores.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

He died last year. By that time, hundreds of thousands of the filters were in use in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

More than six hundred seventy-one thousand foreign students attended an American college or university during the last school year.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

A city report says economic activity last year totaled almost three billion dollars, a four percent decrease from two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Last year, Selena Gomez became the youngest person to be named a United Nations Children's Fund Ambassador in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.10.08

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that more than one billion of the world's people faced hunger last year.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Last week,W.W.E.officials reported the company earned more than one hundred seventeen million dollars in the fourth financial period of last year.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

The latest report estimated charitable giving in the United States last year at more than three hundred seven billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Last year, Joel Selanikio received the Lemuelson-MIT Award for Sustainability for his work in public health and international development.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

Last year, another drug company,Sanaria, won a Vaccine Industry Excellence Award for Best Early Stage Vaccine for its malaria vaccine.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Last year,he established Timeless Media, a for-profit company that pays for and extends the work of Playing for Change.

VOA: special.2009.07.31