Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Today we tell about a wave of crime taking place in the warm waters off the east coast of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

One of the rarest species of mangrove tree grows in just a few places in East Asia and India.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Counterfeit medications are also a problem in the Middle East and in many countries of the former Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

It all started after his father decided that there was no longer enough room in east Texas for his family.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

In nineteen forty-seven, he began to direct the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton University on the East Coast.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

Jordan was the first stop on a Middle East trip in which he also visited Israel and the Palestinian territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The wide flat grasslands seemed strange to men who had lived among the hills and forests of the east.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Ships can enter the Saint Lawrence River on the east coast of Canada and travel to Chicago, Illinois or Duluth,Minnesota.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The sub was brought back to the East Coast of the United States and became a floating museum in nineteen eighty-six.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

Private e-mails and documents were stolen from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

After he finished his studies at Harvard in eighteen seventy-six, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Yet Egypt is not alone. Foreign investors worry about corruption, mismanagement and security problems across North Africa and the Middle East.

VOA: special.2011.02.04

It extends more than four hundred eighty meters over the East River to connect the areas of Brooklyn and Manhattan.

VOA: special.2009.03.04