Dubai,Radia points out, is a major transit point for foreign travelers and an upscale shopping destination in the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

The base is home to 2,000 marines and has long been a sore point for Okinawans.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The payment crisis marked a turning point for India's economy as it prompted the government to reverse decades of closed-door, socialist style economic policies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

It is the starting point for state visits complete with red carpets and marching bands.

VOA: standard.2009.04.13

"Rather than being a mechanism of cooperation,of joint fact-finding, of assistance to one another, it became another focal point for animosity and a failure,really, to work together to solve the desperate needs of both peoples."

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

For each ten percentage point increase in sports participation, she found a one point increase in female college attendance.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Poe served in the Army for two years, before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point to become an officer.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

For example,in two thousand five, the United States bought one point four billion dollars worth of cocoa products.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

The astronauts' decrease in bone strength measured from point six percent to five percent for each month spent on the space station.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Arizona has become the point of entry for more than forty percent of illegal entrants from Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

But some experts point out the lack of such "open access" rules for telephone and cable companies.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

The association for college admission counseling recently found a thirty-point increase with Kaplan and other programs.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

For example, the TMR patients completed elbow and wrist movements in an average of one-point-two-nine seconds.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

"The point is, that what we are looking for is not just to continue on the same path, we want to leap into the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.28