The sixty-three year old coach has had operations to replace both of his hips and has problems with his back and knees.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

Last month,the African Medical and Research Foundation held a medical camp in Kenya to provide free operations to those with the condition.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Intelligence officials said the head of al-Qaida's operations in Afghanistan used a middleman to communicate with him.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

They also included accidents with the use of drugs in medical procedures or operations.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

"Having been with the forces,in fact, who are conducting the operations to recover him,or to find him, they are extensive,vast.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

The operations are highly unpopular among Pakistanis, but are believed to occur with the tacit consent of the government.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

The station, whose name "Nisaa" means "woman" in Arabic began operations this month with the help of Smiling Children, a Switzerland-based humanitarian foundation.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"With the civilians, it is not possible to go and conduct offensive operations in that area.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

But Pakistan's operations against the Pakistani Taliban, in the border area with Afghanistan, may have been insufficient in the eyes of US officials, analysts say.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

The U.S.presence,Mr.Obama said, will shift from military to civilian leadership, with a focused mission of training Iraqi forces, counter-terrorism operations, and protecting U.S.civilian and diplomatic personnel.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

The expanding U.S.advisory role coincides with a decrease in combat operations in the months before U.S.troops are due to withdraw by the end of December 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

"If we are to defeat this vicious insurgency and by doing so make Britain and the world a safer place, then we must persist with our operations in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

The French leader also praised the Obama administration's new strategy on Afghanistan - with its focus on training Afghan security forces and emphasis on both military operations and civilian development work.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

The amended law bans the import of wood products from illegal logging operations, and threatens U.S.companies that violate the law with stiff fines,jail time, and confiscation of their illicitly-traded timber or forest products.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Paul Pillar,a former senior CIA intelligence officer now with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, favors a shift away from direct combat operations to a concentration on training Afghanistan's army and police, and economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The Secretary of State said she is working to integrate U.S.aid efforts more closely with diplomacy and defense operations abroad without politicizing aid programs saying the "3-D's" - development, diplomacy and defense must be mutually-reinforcing.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

"This notion that you do not want U.S.firms going overseas is really a mistake to begin with, because in many cases the operations abroad and the operations at home are actually complimentary to each other,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

He urged NATO members to use the Afghanistan experience to improve operations in the future so they do not create a two-tier alliance, with some nations doing most of the work and the others just taking the benefits.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"But I do think that in general we have seen a shift from, for lack of a better term, professionalized terrorist operations to those that are conducted by not exactly amateurs, but folks with less training and less capability generally, technical capability."

VOA: standard.2010.05.05