Arab words like Toubib - or doctor - pepper the French language.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

A reputation -- what people think of you, good or bad -- is built one message at a time.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

Some people have a fifteen- or twenty-year loan, often with an adjustable interest rate instead of a rate that never changes.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

The company then sends the workers a text or e-mail message so they can respond quickly to an offer.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

Many victims live in areas with poor or non-existent health care systems and where antivenom treatments are often not available.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

She says people would not even notice a difference in taste with three grams, or one-half teaspoon, less salt per day.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

But a lot of that market has moved to free or low-cost advertising on the Internet, including sites like Craigslist.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

In Canada,for example, indigenous -- or First Nation people live on average seven fewer years than Canadians of European ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Students might go home to their families -- or spend a week partying on a warm beach with no parents around.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

That's too abstract." In the Bilski case, the court said patent examiners could consider what is known as the machine-or-transformation test.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

Three hours later, NASA officials told the crew that everything was "OK" for what they called TLI, or trans-lunar injection.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

It is not chaos or death -- it is form,union,plan -- it is eternal life -- it is Happiness.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

Or it may be as extensive as a whole paper copied -- or bought -- from somebody else.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Roosevelt disagreed. "My business," he said, "is to see fair play among all men -- capitalists or wage-workers.

VOA: special.2010.08.12