There was a new effort to build wealth from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

And he had more Top Twenty single records than any other recording artist up to that time.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

It grows from the ground up. We don't impose regulations from the top down.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

You can drive your car slowly up a rough road to the top.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

The top U.S.commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has reportedly asked for up to 40,000 more troops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Amazingly,in addition to heavy strongboxes and baggage, a Concord stagecoach could carry as many as 18 people, squeezed inside and up top, front and back.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

"She is,in fact,the American dream. Out of a housing project comes this women who ends up at the top of her class at Princeton .

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

Iran's top police chief, Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam says that his organization is setting up a "cyber police division" to combat what he terms "Internet crime."

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The lead up to Sunday's Super Bowl is a frenzy of media attention on the top two teams, the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

His top general there has reportedly asked for up to 40,000 troops.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

"When we ask them what is the biggest problem in the local areas we find that security takes a back seat and issues like electricity, roads,water,and unemployment come up on top,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

World Vision's Amelia Merrick, says getting schools back up and running quickly is a top priority, particularly in areas like Pariaman where entire villages were buried by landslides caused by the quake.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Top smoke. Get it up there.

VOA: standard.other

"You look for a banjo, then you look for a flat top guitar, got to have the stand-up bass, a fiddle works really well, and then you get the old mandolin in because a mandolin really has got some good sound to it too."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28