The Federal Reserve suggested again that short-term interest rates are likely to remain near zero for some time.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

The two time periods tested whether people were more likely to act differently in the short term than in the long term.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

American writer Alice Kahn is said to have invented the term to describe young people who spend a lot of time using computers.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Media Relations Director Jeffrey Hiday says the term "think tank" dates back to that time.

VOA: special.2010.09.27

Al-Zaidi was initially sentenced to three years behind bars, but the term was later reduced, and he was granted additional time off for good behavior.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

And that,of course,takes time,". President Hifikepunye Pohamba is running for a second five-year term.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

Austan Goolsbee spoke on Fox News Sunday: "It is going to be a rough patch not just in the immediate term, but for a little bit of time ".

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

But she said it is time to go beyond disaster relief to long-term development to counter a so-called "youth tsunami" of an estimated one million Haitian young people who will enter the job market during the next five years.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14