It was the beginning of a career with the company that lasted about forty years.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Drug-related violence in Mexico has killed more than seven thousand people since the beginning of last year -- often with guns bought in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

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

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Despite Pakistan's public objections, the United States has sharply increased the number of drone strikes in the last year, with more than 40 since the beginning of 2008.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

"And we are going forward and we will come out at the end of October, beginning of November, with this new approach because something has to be changed."

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

"The American people are running out of patience, and with 114 members of the House voting this week against the war , Congress is beginning to catch up to the public."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30

Whether anything happens remains to be seen. President Medvedev said on Tuesday that no one is dizzy with success over Russia's struggle with corruption and that Russians are at the very,very beginning of the road in the fight against it.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15

"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