This is meant to protect against possible losses should anything unexpected crush those green shoots in the world's largest economy.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

This meant the Apollo Eight astronauts could fire the rocket that would send them from Earth orbit toward the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Adelaide Johnson said this unfinished area was meant to show that the struggle for women's equality was not over.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

I knew the sky was black because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the air.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

During her second year at college, Miss Keller wrote the story of her life and what college meant to her.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

But other experts offered technical explanations of how the wording was not meant to hide a drop in temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

The changes are meant to support net neutrality -- the idea that all Web traffic should be treated equally.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

And the Reverend Jesse Jackson commented in a statement about what her small act of bravery meant for African-American people.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Miz McClellan said. She said Wilma Mankiller meant so much to girls who had no power at that time.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Years later,Woody described what singing meant to him: "When you sing a song, it reaches out and enters people's ears.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

This year's observance is meant to bring attention to the differences among suicidal individuals and their situations around the world.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

Brown said God meant for him to begin this rebellion by invading Virginia with a military force he already was organizing.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

He says every extra hour of television meant an eight percent increase in the chances of developing signs of depression.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

The task force says the new recommendations are not meant for women who have an increased risk of breast cancer.

VOA: special.2009.11.18