Thirty years ago, the Federal Trade Commission found that Stanley Kaplan's program could raise SAT scoresbut only by about twenty-five points.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

The report estimates that there may be an additional one hundred million people with asthma by the year two thousand twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

It was painted by a Roman-born artist Constantino Brumidi in eighteen sixty-five, at the end of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2010.01.27

By then,Lincoln was dead. On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, Southern sympathizer and actor John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

One of the U.N.Millennium Development Goals is to reduce the under-five death rate by two-thirds by two thousand fifteen.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

That is about ninety-five percent of Americans who are not already covered by Medicare, the government insurance program for older people.

VOA: special.2010.03.26

In nineteen thirty-five, Ernest Hemingway wrote: "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.'

VOA: special.2010.03.21

By nineteen forty-five, there was a lot of heat in a lot of different areas -- professional baseball was certainly feeling that.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

It had to keep moving to reach San Francisco in twenty-five days as required by the government contract.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Krasa directed the children performing the opera fifty-five times at the camp before they were sent to their deaths by the Nazis.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

The twenty-five year old plays jazz that is influenced by the sounds of funk,soul, samba and blues music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

The group says the cremation rate is expected to increase to almost fifty-nine percent by two thousand twenty-five.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

By nineteen twenty-five, he had made enough observations to say that the universe is organized into galaxies of many shapes and sizes.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

Phase five is marked by human-to-human spread of the virus into at least two countries in the same area of the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The name of that song is "Dang Me." It was written and recorded by Roger Miller in nineteen-sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

Another proposal would add two years to the full retirement age for Social Security -- raising it to sixty-nine by about twenty seventy-five.

VOA: special.2010.11.19

People over sixty-five are covered by the Medicare insurance program which the government created in nineteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

And it expects that number to increase to forty-five billion dollars by the end of this year, even with the current economic downturn.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

In fact,by age eighty-five, people are happier with their life than when they are eighteen years old.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

In nineteen fifty-five, photographer Edward Steichen organized a collection of more than five hundred pictures of and by people all over the world.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

That was when twenty-five students in a class taught by Thomas Zurbuchen first talked about the idea.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The hope is that people in all twenty-five countries will be protected against the disease by twenty-fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

But rates in the United States have increased by more than one-third in the last twenty-five years.

VOA: special.2009.10.26

The number of smokers is expected to grow to one billion seven hundred million by twenty twenty-five.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

We are planning on becoming carbon-neutral and,in fact,reducing our footprint by forty percent by twenty twenty-five.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

By comparison, the president's approval rating was about forty-five percent after the congressional elections in November.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

By the end of March, similar sit-ins were taking place in fifty-five cities in thirteen states.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

Visitors pay twenty-five dollars each to walk beyond the canyon walls, surrounded by the canyon, while standing at the edge of the glass bridge.

VOA: special.2009.10.07