As a result,there is a reduction in the number of nodes,or joints, that produce groups of flowers along stems.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Young people who said they were active in religious groups,sports or had other interests were less likely to discuss risky behaviors.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

In eighteen ninety-seven,the word came to mean the huge groups of people running or stampeding to Alaska and the Klondike.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

In the last generation or so, different groups have encouraged public schools to celebrate diversity and cultural differences.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

One group took Polycap. The other groups took either a single drug or different combinations of the medicines in the Polycap pill.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

It might be started by teachers, parents,community groups or, in some cases, a profit-making business.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

"OK,Excellent!" Bill Dedmond talked about the groups of stars or constellations in the night sky.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

People almost always climb in groups of two or more.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

Some mice were put in standard laboratory cages, in groups of five or so, with plenty of food and water.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

"It seems like the differences in opinion vary as many as there are different organizations or groups.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

He says among the hardest-to-reach vulnerable groups are those engaging in behaviors that in some countries are illegal or socially unacceptable, such as homosexuals.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

He says many of the Embera report they fled their homes after one or another of the groups tried to force them to collaborate in attacks against the rival group.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

They should be putting in place procedures to insure that the weapons that they buy are not diverted to insurgent groups or illegal organizations, like drug trafficking gangs and other criminal cartels.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

He says,in the last six or seven years, the number of jihadi groups has expanded so greatly that it is taking a while to find out who these people are and how many fighters have joined their ranks.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Reports about the investigation say the alleged gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had contacts with a militant imam in Yemen and may have transferred money to some individuals or groups in Pakistan, where many militant groups operate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

But the report says the number of attacks with high-powered roadside bombs provided by Iranian forces declined in recent months, and many leaders of Iraqi groups allied with Iran have been killed, captured or exiled, or have gone into hiding.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

The U.S.support is credited with helping the Philippine government capture or kill key leaders of two Islamic insurgent groups in the country's southern islands, but the VFA has become a target for Filipino leftist and nationalist factions who want it scrapped.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12