Washington,D.C. is the country's capital but it is a city,not a state, so it does not have its own star.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

As recently as last week China said it would not discuss the dispute over its currency at the Toronto summit.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

Recognition of the harm asbestoscan do and the ban on its new uses did not take place until recently.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

His mind had lost its sharpness. This did not worry Buchanan, because he had planned to be his own foreign minister.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

But its lack of action did not stop the rise of a labor organization that had been formed a few years earlier.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

The Food and Drug Administration is not required to follow the advice of its committees, but generally does.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Such problems had led Air France to begin replacing older sensors on some of its Airbus planes, but not the one that crashed.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

When the show first aired, some of its creators were not sure it would last one season.

VOA: special.2009.11.27

Pumps that were used to keep the mine dry have not been in operation since its closure.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

"In the name of the State of Tennessee, I order you not to defy its laws.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

But limited liability means the actions of a corporation are not the responsibility of its shareholders.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

I did not understand how a person surrounded by the joy of music could not have some of its sense and beauty inside her.

VOA: special.2009.01.18

But its opening night did not come until more than fifty years after Joplin's death.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Opponents of the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill said its purpose was not to destroy trusts, but to make the public believe that trusts would be destroyed.

VOA: special.2010.06.03