In a pawn transaction, the customer gets a short-term loan of about fifty to seventy-five percent of the value of an item.

VOA: special.2011.04.18

The findings suggest that thinning during the on-crop year can increase the value of off-year pecan crops.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Foreign fishing ships began illegally catching huge amounts of high-value tuna and shrimp in Somali waters.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

On-crop trees produce a large number of small fruit with little value.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

The bill provided 700 billion dollars to buy hard-to-value securities from banks.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

This is known as a teacher's "value-added."

VOA: special.2010.12.23

But the government now says the yuan's value will rely on a so-called "basket" of currencies and not just the U.S.dollar.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

"If we have a high-value target within our sights, after consulting with Pakistan, we are going after them,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

The value of the euro currency has plunged for example, which makes American exports - key to the U.S.economic recovery - less competitive.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

The United Nations cultural organization UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1998 - a designation for places of special physical or cultural value.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

The central bank also announced that it would purchase up to $750 billion of additional mortgage-backed securities, which lost value with the collapse of the U.S.housing market.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

In addition, Hamas charges shopkeepers and consumers an additional value-added tax.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Peter Dowling,a heritage officer at the National Trust in Canberra, says eco-burial sites will not have the same 'cultural value' as one of the many traditional cemeteries he visits.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

So in addition to what each side's own intelligence services are able to pick up, the treaty provides additional information which has always been seen as being of great confidence-building value."

VOA: standard.2009.12.07