A new report by the I.M.F.estimates that the world economy will shrink by one and three-tenths percent this year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The site was launched to the public last September by a start-up company led by its twenty-six year old founder.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

His goal is to increase the percentage of college graduates from forty percent to sixty percent by the year twenty-twenty.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Without new treatments,the W.H.O.says, the number of new cancer patients could reach twenty-seven million a year by two thousand thirty.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The story is told by Sara Louise Bradshaw, a 13-year-old girl who lives with her parents and her twin sister Caroline.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

Many students save money by starting their education at a two-year public college, also known as a community college.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The I.M.F.predicts developing economies will continue to grow for the year, but only by about one and one-half percent.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

If confirmed by the Senate, the fifty-year-old Kagan would be the youngest justice on the current Supreme Court.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

The twenty-five year old plays jazz that is influenced by the sounds of funk,soul, samba and blues music.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

They said the overall strength of storms measured by wind speed might increase two to eleven percent by the year twenty-one hundred.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans end next year, replaced by a middle-class tax cut.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Dubai is in the United Arab Emirates, a thirty-eight year old federation of seven territories ruled by emirs.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

By the spring of nineteen forty-one, Europe had been at war for a year and a half.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

The president is moving to raise that to about sixty-eight thousand by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

And it expects that number to increase to forty-five billion dollars by the end of this year, even with the current economic downturn.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Drug-maker Bristol-Myers Squibb hopes to get permission to sell ipilimumab by the end of the year.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

These were developed in a year-long process led by state governors and chief state school officers.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

On Tuesday, its officers accepted a decision by FINA members to ban high-tech swimsuits next year.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

An Arizona rancher was also killed this year -- probably,officials say, by a Mexican drug smuggler.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

The Copenhagen Accord sets a goal of one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to help poor nations with climate control by twenty-twenty.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Owen is a lonely twelve-year-old boy who is mistreated by a big,mean boy at school.

VOA: special.2010.10.29

In the United States, a two-year study requested by Congress was released earlier this year.

VOA: special.2009.10.03