Ben Bernanke led the central bank through extraordinary efforts to contain the worst economic crisis since the nineteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Violence and displacements of people were especially bad in Sudan,Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The central bank would work with a proposed Financial Services Oversight Council to decide which companies are too big to fail.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

The Palace of the Governors on the central plaza is the oldest continually occupied public building in the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

The central bank said it would buy up to an additional seven hundred fifty billion dollars in mortgage-related securities.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

The National Weather Service said there were ten reports of tornadoes across the central and southern Plains states last Thursday.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

But the central bank chief warned that credit for home buying remains limited and dependent on government-supported programs.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

Today,the park is managed by the Central Park Conservancy under an agreement with the city of New York.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

But the central bank chief expects unemployment to remain high for some time because of slow job creation.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

But some of the central and eastern economies in the European Union are in relatively good health.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

The project covers an area of nearly one thousand five hundred kilometers in the central United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

The central aim of the Festival Fringe Society was not to have a selection process deciding who could or could not take part.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

On Tuesday, policy makers at the central bank said economic growth so far this year has been "considerably slower" than they had expected.

VOA: special.2011.08.12