"The committee continues to anticipate that the economic conditions -- including low rates of resource utilization, subdued inflation trends and stable inflation expectations -- are likely to warrant exceptionally low levels for the federal funds rate for an extended period."

VOA: special.2011.04.29

The technology has spread to many new countries and less stable countries since the end of the Cold War,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Provinces such as Kunduz and Balkh, which previously were relatively stable, are now seeing very high levels of Taliban activity,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

State Department Spokesman Kelly said a stable and prosperous Afghanistan is in the interests of the international community, including Japan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Grybauskaite would inherit leadership of a country that was long considered more stable than its Baltic neighbors.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

Some believe that population is stable in contrast to the eastern portion of the stock which is continuing to decline at probably lower population levels."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

that rather than helping build a stable Afghanistan capable of governing itself, what they describe as an escalation of the U.S.presence may actually harm U.S.security.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

The vote,which has been postponed several times since 2005, is an attempt to find a lasting political solution to nearly a decade of internal conflict in the once stable West African nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The international community must support stable regions, for example Puntland, and offer long-awaited development incentives in order to attract the attention of other Somali regions that see the benefits as counter-weight to joining extremists,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

"We cannot build a stable global economy when hundreds of millions of workers and families find themselves on the wrong side of globalization, cut off from markets and out of reach of modern technologies."

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

The Mexican tourist, who is in stable condition, is the only case of swine flu in Hong Kong so far, but Dr.Chow says the city should not be complacent, because the virus continues to spread worldwide.

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

"Yet,at the end of her life, in an incredibly telling gesture, in a funeral that she scripted before her death, she picked six of the family's workmen,laborers, gardeners and stable hands to be her pallbearers.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

But the political leadership does not want that. "So a part of the strategy is building up those elements in Pakistan that understand that having a stable and peaceful relationship with Afghanistan is actually in Pakistan's national security interest,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

But the President of the Puntland State of Somalia, Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, appealed for foreign assistance to stable areas of the country, saying this would be the best way to prevent extremist groups from expanding areas they control: "There are limited options for dealing with extremists and terrorist threats in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26