Perhaps the best way to prevent getting ripped off in business is to not try to get rich quickly.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

The dog's legs had been cut off in a machine.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

The boat business fell off in recent years because of the conflict between India and Pakistan over Control of Kashmir.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

"None of us know what is going to happen in 2010, and maybe this will all pay off in the future,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

The president said both leaders will need to end delays and make sacrifices to revive the peace talks that broke off in 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

"It is time to stop holding workers laid off in this recession hostage to Washington politics."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

The virus appeared to be leveling off in North America and Europe by year's end.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

make sense to people. It was like an alarmwent off in my head.

VOA: standard.other

Off in the distance, reminders of how prominent the oil industry is here.

VOA: standard.2010.05.09

Much of the company has been privatized in recent years, but many workers are civil servants and it is very difficult to lay them off in France.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

He and nearly 200 other teachers in Yonkers were laid off in June.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

The displaced are heading off in different directions in search of safety.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

In France,where a government vaccine campaign kicked off in public schools on Wednesday, a recent survey found only 21 percent of French said they planned on getting vaccinated.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Days after Mexico suspended public activities virus,testing it, flu, to reduce the spread of swine flu, the country is reporting a leveling off in the rate of new infections.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03