Last month,the jobless rate increased by two-tenths of a percent to nine point eight percent.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

Yet the score actually improved by two-tenths of a point.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Others point to measures recommended by a state-appointed committee.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

That point was also made by California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein on CBS's Face the Nation program.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

The moon landing was seen as the high point of a U.S.space program fueled by a decade-long space race with the former Soviet Union.

VOA: standard.2009.07.16

Premier Wen also said the Chinese government works for the equality of all ethnic groups, a point disputed by China's Tibetan and Uighur dissidents,among others.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

Abe says studies conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD ) point to rising poverty in Japan before the global economic crises in 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Another sticking point is pressure by the EU for Turkey to open its ports and airports to Greek Cypriot traffic, which it has so far failed to do.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

He added that he rejected linking terrorism to any ethnic group or religion, again a point debated by Muslim Uighurs who have been rounded up in anti-terror sweeps.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

That point was echoed by U.S.Senator Richard Lugar.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

"I think I can happily say that we are at point where by we are happy with these developments vis-a-vis Turkey's relations with Iraqi Kurdistan and vis-a-vis its own Kurdish issue inside Turkey."

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

They argued that more than $12 billion was spent on Pakistan during the previous Bush administration with little to show for it - a point underscored by Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, in this exchange with Ambassador Holbrooke.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

"They have gone through the past month or so of very hard effort to reach the point where they can begin to consolidate and control ground that they have won so, by no means this is over yet.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27