Thirty years ago, the Federal Trade Commission found that Stanley Kaplan's program could raise SAT scoresbut only by about twenty-five points.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

But, they create a Central Commission of Hygiene and Sobriety which tell people-- encourage people to eat healthfully, and don't just get wasted all the time-- which is what I would have done, I'll tell you that.

但巴黎人很快成立了中央卫生委员会,旨在宣传并鼓励人们,健康饮食,告诫人们不要总是浪费时间,老实说,如果我在那里的话,早就这么做了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He won an award for his work in atomic energy from the Atomic Energy Commission in nineteen fifty-four.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

In nineteen fifty-four, the Atomic Energy Commission and a special security committee moved against Mister Oppenheimer.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

With another scientist, Mister Fermi wrote a nineteen forty-seven report to the Atomic Energy Commission.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

President Sirleaf says strengthening Liberia's General Auditing Commission and complying with the Norwegian-based Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has reduced corruption.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

In addition to the Century Bank scandal, police charged anti-graft officials from the Corruption Eradication Commission with bribery and blackmail.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

In February, the government of Pakistan asked U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to establish an international commission to investigate Mrs.Bhutto's assassination.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

And that is only part of the grim news that was delivered by the European Commission - the bloc's executive arm.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor says the investigation by the U.N.-appointed Goldstone Commission was one-sided and biased from the beginning.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

The Election Complaints Commission, a U.N.-funded watchdog, is ordering all ballots from suspect polling stations recounted and audited.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

would be fought vigorously. He also noted that a 12-member commission would now be involved in policing "political matters on the internet."

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Environmentalist Gidon Bromberg says a joint Israeli-Palestinian water commission that was supposed to address water issues has not been doing its job.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

But another entity, the U.N.-supervised Election Complaints Commission, is ordering a partial recount and says it is investigating hundreds of serious fraud allegations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

There is standing tension between the Afghan-run Election Commission, which counted the ballots, and the U.N.-backed Complaints Commission, which invalidated the fraudulent ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Niger's electoral commission says more than 92 percent of voters approved changes to the constitution allowing President Mamadou Tandja to run for re-election.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Full preliminary election tabulations are expected to be released Saturday by the country's government-appointed Independent Election Commission.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

But the U.N.-backed Election Complaints Commission is ordering a significant recount of ballots from every province covering 10 percent of all polling stations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

The European Commission - the EU's executive arm - says it will be monitoring Greece carefully to see it lives up to its promises.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

He has proposed a freeze on some domestic spending, and sought a bipartisan commission to craft a plan to tackle America's long-term fiscal imbalances.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

She called the commission's mandate "one-sided" and characterized the Human Rights Council as obsessed with Israel.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission estimates that at least 100-thousand children may not be able to continue their education because of the suspension of donor funds.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

She said the commission will submit a report to the secretary-general within six months.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

The seven-member commission said it decided on the postponement unanimously, after agreeing that fair elections could not take place in the absence of proper voter registration lists.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

They are among some 40 officials that the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

The much-criticized electoral commission chairman Maurice Iwu blames a desperate political class motivated largely by a desire to enjoy the profits of office for Nigeria's electoral problems.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

In a public meeting in New York late last year, the chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Inez Tenenbaum, addressed parents' concerns about dangerous Chinese-made toys.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

The U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission may end up putting into quarantine hundreds of thousands of ballots until the major allegations stemming from the August 20 election are resolved.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The electoral commission has registered an improbable more-than-800,000 people for this vote.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

Yet,in comments aired by the European Commission-backed network Euronews, Moldova's leading civil rights activist Natalia Morari, suggests that young people want pro-Western candidates, such as Ghimpu,to take power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29