Last year, Johnson became the second driver in history to win a third straight Sprint Cup championship.

VOA: special.2009.04.10

The others lost their jobs because they were rated "minimally effective" for a second year.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

A second part of the study is planned for early next year.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Fellow selector and track legend Edwin Moses say it will be difficult for Usain Bolt to win the title for a second consecutive year.

VOA: standard.2010.02.11

St.Louis has two science cafs. The second one - sponsored by Washington University - meets once a month during the academic year at a bar called the Schlafly Bottleworks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

America's battered housing sector also got a dose of encouraging news, with a national index reporting a three percent jump in housing prices in the second quarter of this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Despite what he calls overblown fears of a double-dip recession, Cardillo predicts the U.S.economy will grow between two and a half to three percent for the second half of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Japan is the world's second largest economy, but it has suffered more than Over the past year, it has suffered a deep recession, although the economy now appears to be growing slowly now.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Lee Kyoung-su,a market analyst at Taurus Investment and Securities in Seoul, (Voice) He says markets are worried about the possibility of a second financial crisis, like the one that began in the United States last year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

We go into games with no preconceived notions." In U.S.college football, the University of Florida Gators won the title for the second year in a row and the fourth since 1996 when they beat Oklahoma in the Bowl Championship Series game January 9.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

"Some positive signals have appeared in the last weeks, including the evolution of the financial markets, improvement in business expectations and some real indicators, such as export data in Asia,pointing, all of them, to a stabilization of the economy in the second part of this year and a gradual recovering in 2010,".

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

The winner of the presidential election will replace President Valdas Adamkus who is stepping down in July after completing a second and final five-year term Analysts say Lithuania's main political parties and politicians are widely disliked because of the current economic downturn, and their reputations have been overshadowed by corruption allegations.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17