A spokesman for the Convention and Visitors Bureau,Steve Lewis,says economic activity last month was down five percent from February of last year.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Last month the World Bank predicted a 2% decrease this year - the largest drop since the 1940s.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Hospitals in the United States employ their newest medical residents every year in the month of ...July.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Last month, thirteen- year-old Jordan Romero became the youngest person to reach the top of the mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

When we talked to her earlier this month, their plans for the New Year were still open.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

She suggests that students budget at least one thousand three hundred dollars for a nine-month school year.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

They earn anywhere from a few hundred dollars a month to several million dollars a year.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

The theme for this year's Hispanic Heritage Month is "Embracing the Fierce Urgency of Now."

VOA: special.2009.09.18

Still,a private report said consumer confidence in the economy reached a two-year high this month.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

From historic exhibits to music festivals,this year's Hispanic Heritage Month makes the same appeal.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

That was a volunteer at this year's Capital Fringe which ended last month.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Here is part of the poem. (READER) The current Poet Laureate,Kay Ryan, opened this year's National Poetry Month April first with a videoconference call to four American community colleges.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

A month earlier,twenty-six year old Zamperini had been one of the greatest runners in the world, expected by many to be the first to break the four-minute mile, one of the most celebrated barriers in sport.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

Explorer Pen Hadow led a two-and-a-half-month trek earlier this year that revealed Arctic ice is melting faster than previously thought.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

The national security challenge comes at a difficult time for Mr.Obama, who later this month will mark his first year in office.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Last month, he delivered a videotaped address to the Iranian people as they marked the Persian New Year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

American casualties have jumped from fewer than 40 per month until June of this year, to 70 or more every month since then.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

A Thai blogger this month received a royal pardon after serving one year in jail for posting photos deemed offensive on the Internet.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Last month,the European Union lifted a two-year ban on travel in its airspace for the national carrier Garuda and three other commercial airlines.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

Electoral official Hamdeya el Hosseiny says the election commission is completing its preparations to hold the vote during the first month of next year.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

This 18-year-old plantation worker says he makes $120 a month, a decent wage for his family.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

Now,a new study shows that stock returns during the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan, vary significantly from those at other times of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki, representing the African Union, noted Sudan faces presidential elections next month and a referendum on Southern Sudan's independence next year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

The opposition leader is charged with breaching the conditions of her six-year house arrest because an American man earlier this month swam to her lakeside compound and stayed overnight.

VOA: standard.2009.05.15