According to USA Today, the price tag of getting such a program up and running in America would be around about $4 billion.

VOA: standard.2009.05.18

Until now, both the ruling March 14th coalition and the Hezbollah-led opposition have been running neck in neck in opinion polls and analysts were expecting the results of parliamentary elections to be extremely close.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

With the three parties running so close, each candidate will be hoping to distinguish himself as a clear leader, in the hope of pulling ahead and avoiding a hung parliament - where no one party wins a majority of seats.

VOA: standard.2010.04.22