But I think as time went on after the Rose Revolution, I think he wanted to perpetuate this kind of system in which there was really absence of checks and balances, no real opposition included in the political process very much sort of governing by committee of the inner circle, of loyal allies around the president.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Doctor Pascal Meier of the University of Michigan Health System led an international study of one thousand five hundred patients.

VOA: special.2010.09.15

Workers built a huge system of waterways and pumping stations to control the overflow of Lake Okeechobee, north of the Everglades.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Mars Day at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington is a celebration of our solar system's most famous planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

And in societies where there is less trust between people, the quality of the legal system plays a larger part.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

A major reform of the American system of health care and insurance has moved farther in Congress than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

The World Health Organization, the United Nations health agency, uses a system of six phases to warn of possible influenza pandemics.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The current economic downturn grew out of a culture of irresponsible lending and borrowing and "a failure of the entire system,"

VOA: special.2009.06.19

But with threats, a language barrier and fear of the legal system, victims are often unwilling or unable to seek help.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

Mizz Blackburn and Mister Szostak discovered the special system of genetic information in the telomeres that protects the chromosomes from ruin.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

Missus Lindbergh later admitted that both she and her husband failed to see the worst evils of the Nazi system.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Google has invested in a new company that wants to put up a system of satellites over Africa.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The Italian government is trying to fix the problem with the construction of a seven billion dollar system of moving flood barriers.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

He says the display was designed to look like a map of the local Washington Metro train system instead of a tree.

VOA: special.2009.12.01