The program was important because it helped provide work for more than three thousand seven hundred professional artists who were unemployed.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

For example, the CN Tower in Toronto,Canada is not included in the tallest building category because it is a communication tower.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Most western and southern congressmen opposed the tariff bill, because it would mean higher prices to the people of their states.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Lincoln had said he opposed the decision, because it did not permit Negroes to enjoy the rights of citizenship.

VOA: special.2009.06.11

Scientists have long believed that Earth's satellite lacks the ability to hold water near its surface because it has no atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

Sometimes,people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret because it hurts that person's feelings.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

But later he chose surgery, because it lets him have more time to decide how to help his patients.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

They did so because it was illegal at the time for people of different races to marry in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

September fifteenth was chosen as the starting date because it is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The researchers say Mali suffered less because it depended less on imported rice, in part because of geography.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

It has easy appeal for the bully because it does not involve face-to-face contact and it can be done at any time.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

However,this is more difficult because it is harder to control the diets of people and because they live longer than other animals.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

"Do you remember how Germont laughed when I said the mystery was difficult for him to solve because it was so simple?"

VOA: special.2009.12.26