The State Department says it is working to reduce visa delays that have affected foreign science students and researchers over the past year.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

The scientists say this belief is further supported by the fact that past discoveries from dinosaur areas show they contained large numbers of dinosaur eggs.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

Maybe that is why the city's saying is "Our Future Is Our Past."

VOA: special.2009.06.01

"I think it's an area that has seen its share of economic woes in the past, but because of foresight and investment is now renewed giving birth to renewed industries that are creating the jobs of the future.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

It is a relationship that maybe was strategic in the past, but its probably downgraded to a more ordinary bilateral relationship."

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

But that is changing. In the past decade the number of cyclos on the city's streets has declined sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

This is on top of the 38,000 that are already there, taking into account a doubling over the past two years,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

Noble says it is one of many changes that have improved law enforcement during the past seven years.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

So in that regard,to me, it is dramatically different from the strategy we had in the past,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

One former federal prosecutor involved in past terrorism cases predicts that it is likely that the 9/11 terror trial will not even begin for another two years.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

As an educator,however, Johnson says that there is no other widespread cultural innovation to explain the radical shift in language usage she's seen over the past few years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

But the secretary also said senior officials are aware that past efforts have failed, and he said it is not clear whether the view in Tehran has changed.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

"And the second issue is that behind NATO they see the United States and U.S.power and they remain as convinced as in the past that it is in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The speaker of Iran's parliament, All this iusses indicate the fact that the US president is pursuing the arrogant and dominating approach of the past but under the cover of public-deceiving gestures.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11