But they arrived too late in the year to plant crops, and their supplies nearly ran out.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Twenty-year-old Desirae Somerville is working in a school office and also helping out at the recreation center.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

In the United States each year, an estimated four out of one thousand females older than twelve are victims of non-fatal domestic violence.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The Bureau says pirates carried out more attacks last year in the area than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

In addition to Kuwait, Adair and his men carried out sixteen other jobs that year.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

But already this year, pirates have carried out more than eighty-four attacks in the waters of the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

On New Year's Day, after church we'll go out and sit in the goose pit and do some hunting for Canada geese and also ducks."

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Other presidents who were not terribly popular in their first year and had lots of controversies served two full terms and went out of office in a reasonably positive way."

VOA: special.2010.01.23

It is expected that Democrats will have a tougher challenge in motivating their supporters to get out to vote this year.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

The pace of job losses has declined dramatically in the last year, but nearly 15 million Americans are still out of work.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

The two leaders will meet in the Czech capital, where,one year earlier, President Obama laid out his vision of a nuclear-free world.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Research carried out by IOM last year has identified victims of trafficking in northern and central Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

But not so. About 62,000 new motor homes rolled out of dealerships in 2004, but just one-third that many were sold last year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.01

But in the past year, the army has successfully pushed them out of their strongholds.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

It's funny... but in the middleof all that fun, I began to think about Jenny, wondering how she wasspending her New Year's night out in California.

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Sudden heart failure occurs in approximately one out of 100,000 students each year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

It was organized by UNICEF, which says that every year in West Africa, three million children still die before age five and 25 million children are out of school.

VOA: standard.2009.11.22

In the days since a local court handed out two-year prison terms to seven former Indian employees of Union Carbide, many searching questions have been raised about the verdict.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

In a White House bill-signing ceremony Wednesday, the president reaffirmed a goal he set out early this year: to double exports of U.S.goods and services in the next five years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

He says the government does not want the West to provide aid in Darfur and wants to throw the remaining NGO's out of Darfur by the end of the year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

Last year, LEDC handed out $600,000 in small loans.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

President Robert Mugabe swore himself into office for a new five-year term in June after then opposition-leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of the run-off election because of violence against his supporters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

As Yemen battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a Southern separatist movement, and tries to wrap up a six-year old war in the north, Western governments warn their citizens to stay out of the country, scaring off tourists and investors.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

Critics say this leaves the window open to push the Maoist party, which won 40 percent of the seats in last year's election, out of the picture - paving the way for any number of smaller parties to bid for the prime minister seat.

VOA: standard.2009.05.10