It had been the first time people moved beyond their small planet into the huge solar system.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

"We have good partnerships among the countries within each agro-eco system so that through this twinning they can learn lessons from each other and work together effectively through time."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

He told students it was time for them to learn what it means to be a human being on Earth at a time when every living system was failing.

VOA: special.2009.06.05

During that time,she worked to improve the education system in Arkansas and served on the Children's Defense Fund and the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, an organization that she helped create.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Over time,the parasites invade the central nervous system.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

What we're trying to do here is to change the system in the United States from one that is based on the time that is spent in the seat to one that is based on your actual accomplishments."

VOA: special.2010.02.25

"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

But corruption,unfortunately, has been a big part of the Mexican political system for a very long time."

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"Sometimes people need to take time to adjust to a new place, a new culture,a new system,"

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"At the same time cuts costs, the waste,the fraud,the duplication, endemic to our system and at the same time it covers 31 million people.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The system effectively controlled participants' blood sugar for 27 hours, during which time they ate three high-carbohydrate meals and slept through the night at a hospital.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Critics say that new, independent research proves the system will damage the Australian economy and cost jobs if it is introduced at a time of global recession.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

"The one-time cost of our system which consists of a small solar panel, a little motorcycle-sized battery and a couple of LED lamps, is less than one hundred dollars,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

The laser tracking system would work by giving space craft and satellites, which are able to be maneuvered, time to move out of the way of an incoming chunk of debris.

VOA: standard.2010.07.24