He warned about the deepening recession in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, less than 2 weeks before he takes office.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

He says each new version of one bill is weaker and less effective than the one before it.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

On May fifteenth, just seventeen days after leaving New York, Captain Creesy wrote this in the Flying Cloud's log: "We have passed the Equator in two days less time than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

He received a new liver less than two years before winning a snowboarding bronze medal at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

The president spoke in Pittsburgh, less than an hour before deliberations resumed at the G20 economic summit.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

The $2.4 billion figure approved by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis is $350 million less than last year's amount, which was set before the full effects of the world economic slump were known.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

"Right now at a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory and this is extremely alarming to the World Food Program because we are the ones on the front lines trying to help the most hungry out of the one billion people who are going to bed every night without enough food."

VOA: standard.2009.10.14