Eighteen year old slam poet Safia Elhillo deals with another serious issue in her poem, "Immigrant City."

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Now, you have to understand that when you buy a bond, if you buy it at issue, you get the first coupon in six months, the second coupon in one year, the third coupon in eighteen months, and the last coupon you get at the maturity date.

你们需要了解,如果在发行时就购入债券,六个月后会得到第一笔票息,一年后第二笔,18个月后第三笔,到期时得到最后一笔票息

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More came every year. By the eighteen seventies, California's political leaders were demanding an end to further immigration from China.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Mister Hearst sent a reporter to Cuba in eighteen ninety-seven to secretly rescue nineteen-year-old Evangelina Cisneros from a prison in Havana.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

And since it was eighteen eighty-eight -- a presidential election year -- the tariff became an important election issue.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

After he finished his studies at Harvard in eighteen seventy-six, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

But records from eighteen fifty-eight show that as many as one thousand eight hundred wagons made the trip that year.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

In eighteen fifty, President Zachary Taylor died after serving about a year and a half in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

For example, at the University of Kentucky, out-of-state graduate tuition averaged about eighteen thousand dollars this year.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The researchers studied the diets of thirty-one thousand children ages two to eighteen over a thirty-year period.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

Some of the advice they received came from the youngest member of the Jonas Brothers, eighteen-year-old Nick.

VOA: special.2011.07.28

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

In eighteen thirty-four,Poe married his cousin Virginia Clemm, the thirteen year old daughter of his father's sister.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

It failed within a year. At eighteen, Patrick married a sixteen year old named Sarah Shelton.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

In one study, researchers examined the pages of five hundred eighteen-year-olds from the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.18

She was born in Ireland but Professor Gorn found that the year was eighteen thirty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Travel was impossible during the four year American Civil War that began in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Eighteen twenty-one was also an important year in the history of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Eighteen sixty was a year of mixed feelings of hope and fear.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Eighteen ninety-two was a presidential election year in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

The following year, Jones set a school record with eighteen assists.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

But eighteen-year-old Julia Holmblad joined the group for a different reason.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

Historians say Harriet Tubman was born in the year Eighteen-Twenty.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

That is an increase of eighteen percent over this year.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Presidents have issued Thanksgiving proclamations every year since eighteen sixty-three.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Eighteen sixty-two was a congressional election year.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Eighteen-year-old John Marbach just finished high school.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

Eighteen sixty-four was such a year.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Eighteen-year-old Placida knows that feeling.

VOA: special.2010.05.13