The Race to the Top competition will look for states and local school systems with effective reforms in four areas.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Edlene says,after the earthquake, she went on a local radio station and said I had a four-room place that was available for anyone who needed help.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

Gun activists are hoping to use that five to four ruling by the Supreme Court to challenge local and state gun control laws around the country.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Call them glasses, specs, grannies, frames or peepers--your local four-eyes can't live without them.

FORBES: No. 9 Eyeglasses

However, the BBC learned she was told by a local newspaper four days earlier that at least five people had died.

BBC: Nicola Sturgeon

The ritual performance of Dainichido Bugaku takes its name from this story, but the art evolved considerably since, reflecting local features as elders transmitted it to the young within each of the four local communities of Osato, Azukisawa, Nagamine and Taniuchi.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage