He made a fire, beginning with small pieces of wood and adding larger ones.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

"One of the farmers we've been working with from the very beginning is a guy named Rusty Lee."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

It was the mass-issuance of mortgages to consumers with poor credit ratings that led to a rash of mortgage defaults and home foreclosures beginning in late 2007.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

One day after Cuban President Raul Castro called for open dialogue with the United States, Mr.Obama had this to say: "The United States seeks a new beginning with Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"I think I learned the skill of really staying focused and staying with a project, because at the beginning our business was not very popular, we were not selling very much, but I learned to stick with it and to not give up,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

He pioneered a new policy of South Korean reconciliation with the North, beginning with the historic Mr.Kim won the Nobel Peace Prize after that meeting - although the event was later tarnished by allegations South Korea paid the North half a billion dollars to hold the summit.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21