Mr.Hawass is often described as a colorful leader who has brought Egypt's long-ago past to the attention of the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Wayne Bronner says the family's long-term planning and willingness to reinvest profits has grown the company into what it is today.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

Long-time Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced he is leaving the Republicans to join the president's Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

It's easy to imagine those long-ago days of cowboys and Indians, and the spirit of adventure that led travelers to ride the stagecoach west.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Every year at this time, the peasants began their long religious pilgrimage to Geed-leh, to visit the church there, and to pray for God's help.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

But the most common cause is long-term smoking or years of breathing other people's smoke.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

He notes that Raptorex's body was about two and seven-tenths meters long.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

These include linking the pay of bankers to their bank's long-term performance.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

However,scientists have become concerned about the hormone's long-term effects on our health.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

"What is necessary in this case is a collective effort, not only by the researchers and the people on the ground, but also the donor community, because controlling those two diseases can go a long way in improving people's food security and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa."

VOA: special.2009.09.21

That's what author William Alexander discovered when he embarked on a year-long odyssey to re-create the perfect loaf of peasant bread.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Federal Reserve officials announced a plan to purchase up to $300 billion in long-term U.S.government bonds to bolster the nation's economy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

The Mars-500 mission at Moscow's Institute of Biomedical Problems will test the psychological and physical effects of long-term isolation on humans.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02