The effort will help reduce carbon dioxide releases from the Empire State Building by more than one hundred thousand tons a year.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

People put more time,effort and money into decorating their homes with these ornaments, lights and religious scenes.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

He also touted his more popular effort to reform the nation's financial industry and hold bank executives more accountable.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

But Morrell called the effort to convince China to be even more open about such things "a work in progress."

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

and NATO forces in Afghanistan recently warned of mission failure unless more troops and resources are devoted to the effort.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The U.S.and NATO commander there, General Stanley McChrystal, has said that without more troops the allied effort could fail.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

General McChrystal is expected to ask for tens of thousands more troops in an effort to bring stability to Afghan population centers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

In a secret assessment published by The Washington Post Monday, General Stanley McChrystal says he needs more forces and,without them, the effort faces possible failure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

And it requires clearly a more determined effort on the civilian and political sides.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The president thanked Ms.Merkel for Germany's contributions to the NATO military force in Afghanistan, although the United States wants Germany and other NATO partners to add more troops to the effort.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

House Democrats have made some progress in recent days in bridging differences between liberal lawmakers focused on covering the uninsured and more conservative party members concerned about the cost of the reform effort.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

But the president also said the United States will lead an international effort to bring more civilian assistance to Afghanistan, to train the country's new security forces and to improve security for the Afghan people, partly by sending more U.S.troops.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

At St.Charles High School in St.Louis, delivering his 52nd speech on health care since taking office early last year, the president again took aim at Republican calls to scrap the current legislative effort, and those he said favor giving the insurance industry even more power than it has now.

VOA: standard.2010.03.10

He also offered some tough talk. "I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption, joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces so that the Afghan people can provide for their own security,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

But Secretary Gates on the first visit to Tokyo by a senior U.S.official since the new Japanese government took office - says he will remind the new Japanese leaders that Afghanistan is a NATO and coalition effort and that Japan's refueling mission did more to help other countries than it did to help the United States directly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

"It was very clear to me that despite this attack and despite the continuing terrorist attacks on Pakistan's cities and towns throughout the region, while I was there, that the humanitarian effort can't be deterred providing food, providing medical care, providing clean drinking water for the more than two million people displaced currently is far too important,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.19