The government says the United States economy shrank at an annual rate of one percent in April,May and June.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

New York had the lowest rate, at seventy-nine percent of the adults observed at Grand Central Station and Penn Station.

VOA: special.2010.09.29

"At the rate we're going,we are expected to spend one-fifth of our economy on health care within a decade.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

However,it was largely the result of businesses cutting their supplies of unsold goods at a slower rate.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

African American children die from the disease at five times the rate of white children.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

In five of them, the rate at which fish are being taken out of the sea has dropped to a level that should let the populations recover.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

The Bank of Japan agreed to loan $115 billion to financial institutions for three months at a rate of 0.1 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

At any rate, little optimism remains for the future of six-nation talks aimed at getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

After a year of shrinking output, the U.S.economy grew last quarter at a 3.5 percent annual rate.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

"We have detected certainly an increase in the past couple of weeks of the rate at which people are being allowed to return home,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Monteiro says tourism on Santiago is not growing at the rate of other Cape Verdean islands.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

"We have an economy that was growing at almost six percent in the fourth quarter of last year the most rapid rate in six years.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

Geithner noted that the drop in unemployment follows word that the U.S.economy expanded at an annual rate of 5.7 percent at the end of 2009.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

The U.S.economy grew at a faster than expected rate at the end of 2009, up nearly six percent in the last three months of the year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

Across Russia fires are running at twice the rate of normal.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"But what it means is, if the world is going to grow at the rate it can in the future, the rest of the world is going to have to shift to more domestic sources of growth, investment,and spending,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.12