(OMITTED) "The Back-Up Plan" marks the feature film directing debut of Alan Poul, an award-winning television producer and director on shows including "Six Feet Under."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Simbo says the guarantee of a daily profit makes the back-breaking work worthwhile.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22

Back to the yellow-papered bedroom, the smell of cooked cabbage, the daily ride to work on the crowded street cars.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

"Let me get back to you on that. Oh,oh,oh -- in college, the boyfriend who absolutely forgot Valentine's Day.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Mattel agreed to change it. That was back in nineteen ninety-two, the same year as the first Barbie for President doll.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The sub was brought back to the East Coast of the United States and became a floating museum in nineteen eighty-six.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Caroline Cleveland was right. She and her husband moved back into the White House after he became president again in eighteen ninety-three.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

She fell back to Earth, but the steel-spring bustle just bounced her back up as high as before.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

She also said that after she writes the last word, she goes back later,re-reads the story and then writes a new version.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

Then in nineteen ninety-six, he came back to America to play for the newly formed Major League Soccer.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

The sixty-three year old coach has had operations to replace both of his hips and has problems with his back and knees.

VOA: special.2009.07.10

I always have been since Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and back in the good old days.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

This is back-to-school season. But the National Retail Federation says school-related sales are down from last year.

VOA: special.2009.08.21