The team of students and research volunteers set off on a three-week boat trip to examine the area.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

They put together a huge herd of more than two hundred sixty-thousand cattle and set out for Sedalia.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

He set one by playing poker for seventy-two hours, which was a record for that card game.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

The national record for snowfall in a single season was set in nineteen ninety-eight and nineteen ninety-nine.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

represented a time of promise. "This could not be happening" was the sentiment expressed as a growing crowd gathered around that black-and-white TV set.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

But the outbreak of April third and fourth, nineteen seventy-four, set a national record.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

It set a record as the fastest human-made object to ever enter the atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Euro-area nations have set up a bailout fund of about one trillion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

Also left forever on the moon is a sign with these words: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the Moon July,nineteen sixty-nine A.D.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

It's really a great set-up. It really encourages creativity on the kids' parts."

VOA: special.2010.07.30

By 2012,they hope to set up a network of pick-up and drop-off locations for rented bicycles throughout New York City.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Bolt shattered his old mark by 11-100ths of a second to set the new world record of 19.19 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

"It did not adequately put in place a set of checks and balances on risk-taking that had systemic consequences."

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

UNICEF spokeswoman,Veronique Taveau, says her agency has set up so-called child friendly spaces in the camps as a stopgap measure.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03