One cold January morning in nineteen eighty-eight, library workers found a small,almost frozen kitten in the book drop.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

It helps reduce the number of high school drop-outs in Los Angeles and the San Francisco area.

VOA: special.2011.03.02

And it was the biggest drop since the group began publishing annual reports in nineteen fifty-six.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

But the decision to drop the Bush missile-defense plan brought a mixed reaction in Congress.

VOA: special.2009.09.19

They found a drop of more than thirty-five percent worldwide in the past thirty years.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

There was also a drop in the number of people on long-term unemployment assistance.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

He agreed to postpone earlier elections in exchange for a power-sharing deal that saw his political opponents drop their electoral boycott.

VOA: standard.2009.07.19

It says an across-the-board drop in trade and financial inflows has resulted in lower earnings from exports.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

If,instead,the South dissects the North's motives, it will in his words "drop a bomb" on inter-Korean relations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

News of the widening trade gap, along with several other gloomy economic reports, contributed to a 2.5 - percent drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

"They're not quite there yet. There have been some serious efforts to deal with a combination of long-standing problems in the auto industry and the current crisis which has seen the market for new cars drop from 14 million [vehicles in annual sales to nine million.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30