Although he called the U.S. decision to lift restrictions on Cuban-Americans to visit or send money to relatives in Cuba a "positive step,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Some are HIV positive. Others have lost husbands or fathers to the disease.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Whether that result is positive or if is a flat result or something in between - something that we're not quite sure what it is - it is the first ever anti-retroviral containing product.

VOA: standard.2010.07.15

Silvia expects the situation to improve soon. "I would suspect that the jobs numbers would turn positive by the second quarter of this year, so probably another two or three months out we'll get some positive jobs numbers."

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

"I think that the proposal that the President made in Geneva to have Iran withdraw its enriched uranium, or a good portion of it, outside Iran is a positive first step in that direction and I support and appreciate the President's ongoing efforts to unite the international community to address the challenge of Iran's attempts to become a nuclear military power,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.30