On Tuesday his Berkshire Hathaway company agreed to buy the nation's second-largest railroad, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Still,employment expert John Challenger says his findings suggest that the nation's employers are not expecting a double-dip recession.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Gannett,the nation's largest newspaper publisher, has cut more than one-fifth of its jobs in the past two years.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

Mister Obama has dealt with many issues since becoming the nation's first African-American president on January twentieth.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

President Bush offered best wishes to Barack Obama, who will be the nation's first African-American president.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

John Miller says that literacy is an important sign of the nation's well-being.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

South Africa is a nation of forty-nine million people and Africa's biggest economy.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

And the nation's leaders prepared for the national election of eighteen forty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

Mister Kennedy was one of the nation's longest-serving and most respected senators.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

That would raise the nation's coverage rate to about ninety-six percent.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

About one-fifth of the nation's electricity is generated by nuclear power.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

The FAO reports that China remains the world's largest fish-producing nation.

VOA: special.2011.02.08

In nineteen sixty-nine two environmental problems caught the nation's attention.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

They are also the nation's fastest-growing minority.

VOA: special.2010.09.13

At any rate, little optimism remains for the future of six-nation talks aimed at getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

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

sanctions resulting from the launch will deal a fatal blow to six-nation talks aimed at ending the North's nuclear weapons programs.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

He said he also wants to hear ideas from the governors on improving the nation's health-care system to improve access and affordability.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

Rodriguez said it was "insufficient." He said many issues had not been addressed, including the nearly 50-year U.S.imposed embargo of the island nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The top-three teams in the six-nation group advance to next year's World Cup finals in South Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

Professor Bacevich says the key U.S.goal could be achieved without the nation-building aspect of the plan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

But his criticism of what he saw as authoritarianism and human-rights abuses led to his being dropped as successor to the nation's Supreme Leader.

VOA: standard.2009.12.22

In fact,one of the nation's oldest boarding schools for young women - the Moravians' Salem Academy founded in 1772 - is still in operation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Chinese TV showed wall-to-wall pageantry shows and the country's leaders visiting different parts of the nation.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

Lawmakers in Sierra Leone are preparing to join a seven-nation charter to protect the region's mangrove ecosystem which conservationists now say totals just 800,000 hectares.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

In the late 19th Century, Johnstown was the nation's mightiest steel center - more prosperous than Pittsburgh - turning out steel rails and barbed wire.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Many in the opposition party are refraining from criticizing the president's nominee, largely to avoid offending Hispanics, one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing ethnic groups.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30