Their central nervous system may tell the brain that there is pain even when there is no cause for the pain.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

"There are so many unintended circumstances when you try and 'gerrymander' the economic system to try and meet your political objectives.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

And London's Transport Authority has promoted the Oyster card, a magnetic payment system that keeps track of where people have been and when.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

President Obama surprised the world last Thursday when he announced plans to cancel a missile defense system in Europe proposed by the Bush administration.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

(Speaking) Toyota was founded in the early 1930s but the its real success came after World War II when it developed something called "The Toyota Production System."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

"You really need system-wide Skolkovas - Silicon Valley - otherwise it ends up just like under Catherine the Great when they imported a lot of German tradesmen and planted them in various settlements - but they were fairly self-contained.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

to say 'get real.' What is dangerous is to commit "This is extraordinary, to spend a whole lot of money that we might not have on a system that most certainly won't help when the world is changing, when we're facing new threats, where now more and more military experts are saying there are different alternatives."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30