The situation was so bad,Calhoun said, that the South could not -- with honor and safety -- remain in the Union.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

I work at home so I just hoped that my computer would work right and not have a bad hair day also.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

The reshaped cornea corrects the patient's bad eyesight so he or she does not have to wear glasses or other corrective lenses.

VOA: special.2010.09.01

Often,the weather was so bad he could not see where he was.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

"They fight with the government, they do not fight with Yellow, so they do not do something bad to the Yellow.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

The press and other sources,he notes, speculated that the sentence could have been seven years or more, so three years is not all that bad.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

"If you find that the road is not paved, or that the road is paved but breaks down because the corruption is so bad you do not get standards and quality, then you have got a major problem.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

"I think you get used to it after a while." "Once in a while it will get worse, so then it is a little bit nauseating, but it is actually fine, it is not too bad,I am used to it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.30