And some lower-paying jobs require only two years of college, or even a technical education program in high school.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

The team found levels of lead as high as thirty-two thousand parts per million in tests on some paint samples from Ecuador.

VOA: special.2009.08.31

High food prices and the global financial crisis of two thousand eight- two thousand nine have only added to poverty and malnutrition.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

At the same time,he has decided to send two high-level officials to Damascus for talks with Syria.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

Marc Tucker says the aim is to make sure students finish high school with enough skills to succeed in at least a two-year college.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

Still,a private report said consumer confidence in the economy reached a two-year high this month.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

It is very high up -- about two thousand two hundred meters.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

We had the impeachment of President Clinton, we had the Vietnam War, we had the Iran-Contra investigation, periods when the two parties had an enormously high level of tension.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

In nineteen eighty-two, one-third of high school students chose vocational schools.

VOA: special.2010.07.16

From the canyon floor it reaches two hundred twenty-one meters high.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

That compares with a high of seventy-nine in two thousand.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

The U.S.Assistant Secretary of State, Kurt Campbell,and his deputy, Scot Marciel,arrive in Burma Tuesday for two days of high-level meetings.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

And,the Liberal Democrats -- traditionally a marginalized party in what has largely been a two-party system -- are scoring high in opinion polls.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05

Since then,a number of high-profile militant attacks have shocked the nation, including an attack with two suicide bombers on an Islamic university in the capital.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The movable display, which is 15 meters long and five meters high, has two nearly life-sized models of fighter aircraft, covered with flowers, and flower-decked insignia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

also technicians, quality-control officers and a range of positions qualified for by a two year college, and some by high school career technical education programs."

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

In two weeks, the European Union will consider whether high-debt countries will be forced to take austerity measures like introducing wage cuts, employment freezes and longer working weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

Visions of soaring high-rises crumbling may grip the imagination but Surahman says it is the smaller one and two storey dwellings that are most vulnerable in places like Indonesia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Iran is played host to a high-profile summit of two key war-torn neighbors, Pakistan and Afghanistan, in a bid to put an end to conflicts that rage along its borders.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24