Others say it was a smart business move -- like his decision to create a regional sports network on cable television.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

She developed a mobile phone-based system that permits people to share important information throughout the Habla network.

VOA: special.2011.03.02

By 2012,they hope to set up a network of pick-up and drop-off locations for rented bicycles throughout New York City.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

That distinction belongs to the broadcast network itself, which takes as much as one-quarter of the commercial time to promote its own shows.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

Clinton says Washington is opening new business development centers and is working on a virtual entrepreneur network to link small-scale enterprises on line.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

It relies on a network of 80 peddlers who make a living out of pedaling to recharge the lights or cell-phones of their neighbors.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Earlier this month CIA director Panetta banned the use of contract - that is,non-employee - interrogators and ordered the agency's network of secret prisons to be shut down.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Mr.Obama said the United States and NATO agree that it is critically important to dismantle the al-Qaida network and work effectively with the Afghan government to ensure security in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The two cabinet secretaries say the United States still wants to deter, defeat and dismantle the al-Qaida terrorist network, as President Obama said in his statement on strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan in March.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

"This is really designed to get us off the road network, to be able to go cross-country, to go the places that up-armored HUMVEEs go, not be stuck to the road network, which makes us predictable,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

That is our mission,". "And the president described it in no uncertain terms in his inaugural when he said, 'Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.' And to win this war against al-Qaida, the administration continues to be unrelenting, using every tool in its toolbox and every arrow in its quiver,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

Does it need refinement in some way?" "And if it does need some adjustment in light of the events that have taken place over the last number of months, including the election and so on, and then what are the implications of that in terms of General McChrystal's resource request?" The secretary said the United States will not abandon its core mission in Afghanistan, which President Obama described as the destruction of the al-Qaida terrorist network, because it is "critical" to U.S.national security.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23