Those were the years of the great wave of European immigration, before the United States passed restrictive immigration laws.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

Also this week, the House of Representatives passed a major bill to rewrite financial rules and add consumer protections.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

The Agriculture Department has a soybean germplasm collection, a collection of genetic material passed from one generation to the next.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

Since the anti-trust law had been passed in eighteen ninety, few companies had been found guilty of violating it.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Wagon trains -- groups of wagons -- rode in four lines across the land when they passed through dangerous country.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Millions of immigrants coming to America passed the statue as ships carried them to the immigration processing center on Ellis Island.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Kallawaya is passed down within families from father to son as a way of protecting the special knowledge of healers.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

Congress passed several other bills giving the federal government power to protect the rights of blacks in the southern states.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

One woman wiped her eyes with a small square of lace and passed Missus Sommers her box of candy.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

But she also said the health care reforms passed by Congress will improve the quality of care for all Americans.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

But experts generally advise against using the drug if more than three hours have passed after the first signs of a stroke.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The new Congress passed a civil service bill that required ten percent of all federal jobs to be filled through competitive examinations.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

But traditional guidelines say not to use tPA if more than three hours have passed after the first signs of a stroke.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

The American Congress passed several historic pieces of legislation during Benjamin Harrison's administration: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

VOA: special.2010.05.27