During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama used the Internet to build an unprecedented grassroots movement of volunteers and to raise record sums of money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The mayor of L'Aquila, Massimo Cialente, sums up feelings of most people who experienced the quake.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

So,we are talking about large sums. Throughout the world, there is an estimate by the ILO of what we call stolen wages of almost $20 billion."

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Some have asked why companies like AIG were not allowed to go bankrupt, rather than the government investing massive sums of taxpayer money to prop them up.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Those are phenomenal sums. In sub-Saharan Africa now nearly their three shots of vaccines, The announcement by the Gates Foundation was made at the World Economic Forum, which runs through January 31st.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29