OECD unemployment division chief Stephan Scarpetta says the number of jobless among the OECD's 30 member countries is expected to climb even higher next year, to nearly 10 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Moreover, it's had a 17.8% average return for the last ten years, which is number one among university endowments.

甚至,过去十年中,耶鲁基金的年均收益率高达17.8%,依然高居全美高校榜首

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Today the term "political science" stands for one among a number of different disciplines that we call collectively the social sciences.

今日，政治科学“一词“,意指独立的学科,是我们集中称之为,社会科学的多种学科之一。

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And some do it better than others. One measure of success is the five-year survival rate, and the lead author of a new study says that number varied dramatically among the different medical centers doing lung transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

The head of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, says impressive progress has been made in areas such as treatment for HIV/AIDS, in the large number of lives saved among children under five and in significant cuts in deaths from malaria and measles.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

Among those invited by the president to hear the speech in person were a number of Americans who the White House said would benefit from Democratic-sponsored reform , including persons struggling to pay medical bills or denied coverage under the current insurance system.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10