It started out as a way to teach students to farm and work in industries.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

It started out as a college thing and then high school students got it.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Now they are overwhelmingly female even though they started out as male.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

She started out more than twenty years ago working with polymer clay.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

It started out playing progressive rock and producing concept albums.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

It started out as a nine ton block of ice.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

Friday started out stormy, but as the 14 soldiers, Marines and their families boarded a yacht for a sightseeing cruise around lower Manhattan, the dark rain clouds parted giving them a glorious view of the Statue of Liberty.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

The universal subjects in their stories started to come out in the music she was writing.

VOA: special.2011.01.14

The festival started as a way for musicians in Austin to reach out to larger audiences.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Businesses started to move out to the edges of cities where suburbs were developing.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

The group started about twelve years ago out of the Washington Storytellers Theater.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

They first started testing out songs together while on a trip to Fez,Morocco.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

"I've always loved working with the robots. And when I first started it was a challenge working with the robots, understanding how they worked and figuring them out.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

He started price wars that forced his competitors out of business.

VOA: special.2010.02.25