• After about five years, cacao trees start producing large fruits called pods, which grow near the trunk of the tree.

    VOA: special.2010.02.17

  • The chief engineer,Joseph Strauss, wrote a poem called "The Mighty Task is Done" after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed.

    VOA: special.2010.07.23

  • Jackson bought a huge property in California which he called "Neverland" after the children's story of Peter Pan.

    VOA: special.2009.07.05

  • The steelworkers union called the strike after failing to reach a wage agreement with company officials.

    VOA: special.2010.06.10

  • The Justice Department announced the arrests on June twenty-eighth, four days after the so-called hamburger summit.

    VOA: special.2010.07.10

  • In Faulkner's story called "The Bear" a group of men are talking after the day's hunt.

    VOA: special.2010.01.03

  • Heavy government debt only adds to unease about the future after the so-called Great Recession.

    VOA: special.2009.05.29

  • Instead,Congress called it Utah, after the Ute tribe of Native American Indians that lived there.

    VOA: special.2009.06.04

  • After the American Civil War in the eighteen sixties, a writer in a publication called Beadles Monthly used the word doughboy to describe Civil War soldiers.

    VOA: special.2010.03.07

  • After the revolution, Alisa returned to Saint Petersburg, now called Petrograd, to attend college.

    VOA: special.2010.06.06

  • After four to ten days, they change again, into creatures called pupas.

    VOA: special.2009.05.26

  • Emergency contraceptives, like the so-called morning-after pill, can prevent pregnancy if they are taken within 120 hours of unprotected intercourse.

    VOA: standard.2010.03.22

  • After graduating from university in a computer gaming program, he founded an educational video game company called Let Me Think Games.

    VOA: standard.2010.04.20

  • After a recent trip to Tegucigalpa, Miami Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen called on U.S.President Barack Obama to review his policy toward the crisis.

    VOA: standard.2009.10.23

  • Mr.Obama spoke after separate meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, which he called "frank and productive."

    VOA: standard.2009.09.22

  • He said,however, that two polling officers were arrested before the polls opened Friday after they were found opening boxes containing what he called sensitive materials.

    VOA: standard.2009.11.28

  • It's not a daily thing. They have something called passeggiata, so after every dinner they get up as a family and they go for a walk."

    VOA: standard.2010.02.23

  • President Obama called for a return to peace talks on Thursday, two days after the Israeli government announced a partial settlement freeze in the West Bank.

    VOA: standard.2009.08.21

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