NACE's latest survey in March found that employers expected to hire twenty-two percent fewer graduates this year than last.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Krall says she was influenced to make this album because of a trip she made to Brazil last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

In Saudi Arabia, officials are preparing for the Hajj, which starts this year during the last week of November.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Last month the World Bank predicted a 2% decrease this year - the largest drop since the 1940s.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

For example, organizers of the Street Scene festival in San Diego,California, cancelled this year's event because of poor ticket sales last year.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

The Council of Graduate Schools says this followed an increase of six percent last year and nine percent the year before that.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

World trade is expected to drop eleven percent this year, after expanding by three percent last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Advertising sales dropped sixteen percent last year, and the group expects another ten percent drop this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

Operations have intensified. More than four hundred American and coalition troops have been killed so far this year, more than during all of last year.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

The World Food Program said last week that the number of hungry people will pass one billion this year for the first time in history.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

That was a volunteer at this year's Capital Fringe which ended last month.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

She says they sold four thousand more tickets this year than last year.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

This is the last of the president's three commencement addresses this year, and his first at a military academy.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

In the meantime, the U.S.federal deficit exceeded $1 trillion last year, and is projected to do so again this year.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21