Goals for what public schools should teach are set by state and local school boards.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

He said he was sorry for what he saw as political pressure by President Obama to force BP to set up a claims fund for victims.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

That is what researchers at Keele University in Britain set out to discover.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

The victims were mostly Shi'ite muslims, in what appears to be a bid to set off further sectarian warfare.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

The video for "Liberian Girl" assembles some of what were then Hollywood's biggest names on the set of a colonial-era movie about Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

So what we're learning,so far, is that there isn't any set definition as to what sustainability means."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

In the regional city of Lae, clinics have been set up in tents to cope with what is expected to be a flood of patients.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

A number of people have taken over a children's climbing set. They've set up sheets and tents and what look like make shift sleeping bags.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

And that is exactly what I set out to do." The last event of the Championships will be the final of the men's four-by-400-meter relay.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

the Republican leader in the House of Representatives, John Boehner of Ohio, said the initiatives announced by the White House do not go far enough and what is really needed is a set of new economic policies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

The two presidents met for the first time on the sidelines of the G-20 economic conference in London in early April and set in motion what Clinton says is an effort to raise the frequently contentious U.S.-Russian relationship to a higher level.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

"I guess it was a process of waking up to what I was actually doing and just as I am helping set up all these memorials out here, I think back to some of the things that were part of my day to day life in the military even before I got to Iraq, just how some of our battle cries would be things like kill them all."

VOA: standard.2010.03.20