In eighteen seventy-six, the electoral votes of three states -- Florida,Louisiana and South Carolina -- were enough to give the White House to one candidate or the other.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

As a result,Rutherford Hayes gained the electoral votes of all three states.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Each party claimed victory in these three states.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

"There has been a real concentration in those three states of intertribal trouble.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

In eighteen seventy-six, both the Republicans and Democrats claimed the electoral votes of three southern states: Florida,Louisiana,and South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

Turkey has become so popular that turkey production in the United States has grown three hundred percent since nineteen seventy.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

The findings came from a study of more than three hundred forty thousand adults living in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

Researchers compared the use of fertilizer in three areas that grow maize as a major grain: China,Kenya and the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

The number of Washingtonians grew about three percent during that period while the United States population increased more than seven percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

And it was three days after the Confederate Army of the southern states attacked federal forces at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

States are competing to share in almost three and a half billion dollars as part of a school reform competition.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

In two thousand six, the United States had lower scores in mathematics than twenty-three of the other twenty-nine OECD countries.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The United States did,too. In eighteen seventy-three, Congress passed a law that stopped the government from using silver as money.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

An estimated eighty-three percent of people under age sixty-five who are in the United States legally now have insurance coverage.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

That was three years after the United States established a naval base at Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Three scientists based in the United States have won the two thousand nine Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

The latest report estimated charitable giving in the United States last year at more than three hundred seven billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

At the age of thirty-three, he became one of the youngest doctors in the United States to hold that position.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

Doctor Tom Krueger from the United States volunteered in Liberia in two thousand three, after two civil wars.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The Recording Industry Association of America marked the sale of three million copies in the United States as of two thousand two.

VOA: special.2010.10.18

The United States has lost more than three and a half million jobs since the recession began more than a year ago.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The United States halted air travel for three days after the terrorist attacks in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2010.04.23