The recording notes that the Obama administration includes key figures from the previous Bush administration, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

In 2009,however, a significantly higher proportion than in previous years say freedom and peace are the greatest personal benefits they expect from democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"Approaching the new generations, students of millenniums and post millenniums learn differently from previous generations.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

There are other differences, some of them carried over from the previous Bush White House.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

On a less positive note, the number of newly laid off Americans seeking unemployment benefits totaled 551,000 last week, up from 534,000 the previous week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Overall,it says insurgent attacks fell to 12 per day from 22 per day during the previous three months, while Iraqi civilian casualties fell 35 per cent.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

That is a drop of 2 percent from the previous poll in June.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Two previous military offensives in the last two years against the Swat Taliban failed to push them from the valley, and after each time the militants returned even stronger.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

The U.S.Labor Department reports nearly 670,000 Americans submitted claims for government jobless benefits last week, up more than 10,000 from the previous week and the highest number recorded in more than a quarter century.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

In handing down the sentences, chief judge Adem Ibrahim told the condemned men they should have learned lessons from previous convictions stemming from violence that followed Ethiopia's last national elections in May 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23