The plan,which includes a proposal to create a new regulating authority to monitor risk in the financial system, has been long in preparation and the subject of discussions between lawmakers and the administration.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Other education stories this past year included the deaths of college test preparation pioneer Stanley Kaplan and music educator Bess Lomax Hawes.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

The preparation had a sugar base and was similar to gelatin, a food product.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

"I tried to take a traditional sort of approach to researching this project and doing preparation for it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Star players endure hours of interviews,talking about their football background and their preparation for the big game.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Nurse practitioners are particularly prepared to work with those kinds of people and in those kinds of settings because of community health preparation that we get in our nursing programs."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14