A few months later, members of Congress voted a pay raise for themselves and the executive branch of government.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

She also began to raise money for her dream of a permanent, non-profit school for the higher education of women.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Republicans say the plan would add to the nation's debt, raise insurance costs and expand government involvement in health care.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

He had been feeding it milk from a donkey, and he believed he could raise the baby just fine.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Last week,government scientists in the United States announced the discovery of two antibodies that raise hopes for an AIDS vaccine.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Doctors,nurses,social workers and others work with patients and their families to raise the quality of a patient's last days.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

People walked thirty-two kilometers a day for three days to increase public awareness and raise money to fight breast cancer.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

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

With the help of a group of children and some talking animals, they raise the money needed to buy milk.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Credit card companies will have to inform cardholders forty-five days before they raise interest rates or change other important terms.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise, that he was left out in the cold.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

Opposition Republican leaders agree on the need to raise the borrowing limit by August second or risk the nation's first default.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

Pink is commonly used by groups that try to raise money to search for a cure for the disease.

VOA: special.2009.03.29