But economist Jack Strauss says credit conditions threaten the main engine of job growth since two thousand one small businesses.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

It has been one year since President Obama signed the economic recovery bill aimed at pulling the country out of recession.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

She has recorded more than thirty albums since she had her first number one song on the country music charts.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

The researchers say the maternal death rate has been falling almost one and a half percent a year since nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

More than one billion eight hundred million vehicles have used the bridge since it opened more than seventy years ago.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Major measures of United States markets have closed with their biggest one-day losses since the financial crisis of two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2011.08.12

Almost four thousand fellows have been chosen since the first were named in June of two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

This book is widely considered one of the most important books of photographs published since World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

Since the demonstrations began in March, at least eighty-three people were killed and one thousand eight hundred wounded.

VOA: special.2010.05.22

One reporter questioned why Flamenco music is on the list since it is extremely popular and economically successful.

VOA: special.2010.12.01

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

The Moscow Times newspaper reports that women were involved in about sixty percent of the nearly forty rebel attacks since two thousand one.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Each year since two thousand one, the American State Department has published a Trafficking in Persons Report.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

Since April,more than one thousand deaths have been reported from the H1N1 virus, commonly called swine flu.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

It was the first in the world. Since then, about one hundred nations have followed that example.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

This is especially unusual since he was considered one of the most important architects in the world.

VOA: special.2009.12.13