Some experts think banks have seen the worst of their losses and that the worst of the financial crisis may already have passed.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

"The worst of the storm has passed. But I think all of you understand the devastation remains.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Australia's mineral exports, especially to China and India, helped to insulate the country from the worst of the global slowdown.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

"The housing market has recovered from the exceedingly low levels that we saw hit during the worst of the recession.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

Today the "Champ" uses his own money to keep working with kids he's heard called "the worst of the worst."

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

The meeting chairman, Egyptian Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali, says participants are cautiously optimistic that the worst of the global recession may be over.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

"We probably were able to help a distilled amount of about 1,000 people who were the worst of the worst patients, and we were able to make a difference in their lives."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

The wreck of the Lady Elgin remains the worst loss of life on open water in the Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Missus Lindbergh later admitted that both she and her husband failed to see the worst evils of the Nazi system.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Within two months of Cleveland's inauguration, the United States entered into one of the worst economic depressions in its history.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

It was a list of what he considers the worst practices in the use of information and communication technologies in education.

VOA: special.2010.09.20

The group's recent "State of the Air" report said Pittsburgh has the worst short-term fine particle pollution in the country.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

"Worst-case scenario, if I don't find a job by the end of August, I move back with my parents."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

One hundred and fifteen million of them are working in some of the worst kinds of child labor.

VOA: special.2010.05.17