They played alongside Muddy Waters for 10 years, before launching The Legendary Blues Band with three other members of Muddy's backup group.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Rich countries have proposed to pay out $10 billion a year over three years to poor countries.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Released in 1955, it was the first of more than a dozen Top 10 R&B hits Richard collected over the next three years.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

The Japanese government bailed out the airline three times in the past 10 years, but it could not save the company from bankruptcy this time around.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Twenty-thousand people are affected in Benin. In Guinea,6,000 people are affected by flooding in the capital Conakry and 10,000 people in the city of Kindia, where three rivers have overflowed their banks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05