His decision gives Democrats a 59-seat majority, one short of the 60 necessary to overcome Republican attempts to block legislation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

VOA: special.2011.04.08

He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

This online service lets people send short messages that are no more than one hundred forty letters long.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

In one boxcar, a short man with long, curly brown hair is playing a guitar and singing.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

One of America's best-loved writers of short stories was William Sydney Porter -- better known as O.Henry.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

She wrote seven books and more than one hundred short stories, plays and articles for magazines.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

In Aceh Province alone,up to one hundred seventy thousand unsuspecting people died in a short time.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

He would be launched early in May,nineteen sixty-one, on a short,fifteen minute flight.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

More than one-hundred men from every part of the United States had come to that little camp stopping there for a short time on their way to getting rich.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

"In short, our intelligence community needs to work as one integrated team that produces quality,timely and accurate intelligence.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

It finds that 7.4 million people, or nearly one-third of the population, are short of food.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

The men are kept in a high-security prison near Livingston,Texas, a short drive from Huntsville, where the execution chamber, known as Ellis Unit One is housed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But this was less than one percent short of the two-thirds majority the ANC had campaigned for and four percentage points less than it won in elections five years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25