He says,for children in that era, Pewex stores were like unattainable dreams and it was fun to collect Western things like empty beer cans and matchboxes.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

There are things that we can all relate to, so just because it is set in that era or in this mythological world or even a million years into the future, any movie that is worth its salt in this kind of genre should reflect issues that we deal with today.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

"What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility Ca recognition on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task."

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Mr.Obama's announcement last month that he was canceling the planned Bush-era missile shield ruffled a lot of feathers in Poland.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

The organization's local leader, Andriy Ben, rejects broad Soviet-era accusations that western Ukrainians were all Nazi war collaborators.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

Hundreds of houses were flattened and flooded by the two million cubic meters of water that ripped through the Dutch-colonial era dam.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

That's the kind of letter people use to write when they went off to Vietnam in my era."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

It's like you're reading a manual that would have been more appropriate during the Nazi era than in the United States of America,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

But Biden also had to soothe concerns that scrapping Bush-era plans for a more comprehensive system does not signal a breakdown of Polish-U.S.relations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But in an era of plastic explosives and advanced chemical compounds, that system has proved lacking.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

He said it was a historic event and that he is certain it will inaugurate a new era and a new relationship between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"Being able to deliver that message personally to one of the people who ushered in this new era is really one of the most completely, artistically satisfying moments I've ever had,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

But here in Warsaw, people were waiting for only one thing -an assurance that despite scrapping Bush-era plans for an antiballistic missile shield, the U.S.had not turned its back on Central Europe.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

United States President Barack Obama, who was not at Tuesday's ceremonies, sent a message saying that today there is "a different era in which the United States and Poland are close allies."

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

(SPEAKING) Speaking in Tagalog, Mr.Aquino promised to fight corruption and he pledged to bring a new era of good governance, reforms and a bureaucracy that will be sensitive to the plight of ordinary people.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

Clinton said the two countries, which had frosty relations during the Cold War era and beyond, still differ on some key issues but that their new partnership has the potential to be a "signature accomplishment" of the two governments.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

"I can understand that people who actually lived at that time, in the communist era, who were hurt by this system it might upset them to see young people who might have basically no knowledge about this system and didn't live in that, wearing the symbols they don't understand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

The CBO projection is $7 trillion. The difference between the two estimates lies primarily in the fact that the CBO assumes the expiration of Bush administration-era tax cuts, while the White House is assuming that President Barack Obama will honor his pledge against allowing taxes to rise on families earning less than $250,000 a year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25