Lowering short-term interest rates is the Federal Reserve's main way to get banks to increase lending.

VOA: special.2010.11.05

The president's Democratic Party united to support his policy of lowering tariffs.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Economists say the move is designed to help improve credit conditions by lowering the cost of borrowing.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

He also praises Colombian President Avaro Uribe for lowering his country's coca production, resulting in less cocaine passing through Mexico into the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Cambodia's inability to save mothers contrasts with its success in lowering infant and child deaths.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

pledging to improve access to health care while lowering food and fuel prices.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

Like the Bank of England, the U.S.Federal Reserve has all but exhausted one of its most powerful tools for stimulating the economy -- lowering the key interest rate that banks charge to lend to each other.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

While the health care reform debate in the United States has been dominated on lowering the cost of health insurance, other health care activists and experts are working behind the scenes to lower barriers to quality health care for African-Americans and Hispanics.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

"Most Americans wanted to hear president tell Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Reid, and the rest of the Congress that it is time to start over on a common sense, bipartisan plan focused on lowering the cost of health care while improving quality."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10