But with fewer solar panels, they fell behind the German team on the most important requirement: energy production.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

Economists blamed the crisis on different causes, including high energy costs, bad weather and the use of food-crop lands for biofuel production.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

I was hired in a minor role on the CBS production team for that night's broadcast.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

He and former American President Jimmy Carter worked with the Sasakawa Africa Association to help increase the quality and production of corn on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

And it said no limits should be put on government production of silver money.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

So,in that respect,they are doing something fairly bold,namely, taking the hit of shutting production and correcting the vehicles that are in inventory on which they have stopped sales."

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Equity markets are on the rebound, international trade and industrial production are rising and banks are starting to lend again.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

He says that from the 1970s on, the Soviet economy proved unable to adjust to an increasingly information-driven global production system.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

But in recent years the spice has been making a comeback and production is once again on the rise.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

It is the final step in the complex production of batik, a technique that uses wax to create elaborate designs on fabric.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

"It's obvious. Because only in a free society, a person can realize himself and then develop the country,science, production on a highest standard.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Paper,for example,has little impact on the environment as it is being used, but requires large amounts of energy and resources for its production."

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

In 1985,Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ordered dramatic cuts in the production of wines and spirits and introduced strict controls on the public consumption of alcohol.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

"The advancement we're going to make on the production and research side of things in the next 10 years is going to rival the last 100 years."

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Matthew During's paper on how the mild stress of an enriched environment can change the production of hormones related to cancer growth is published in the journal "Cell."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

The program focuses on all stages of production from planting and harvesting to packaging and promotion, increasing the profitability of farmers who previously struggled to afford costly chemical fertilizers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.11

The Obama administration says it is laying the groundwork to develop a vaccine against swine flu, although no decision has been made on large-scale production of such a vaccine.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

The militant group, which says it is fighting for a fairer share of the region's oil wealth, crippled daily oil production with series of attacks on oil facilities and personnel since early 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

"The bulk of our food production on this planet is dependent to some extent or another on oil or products of oil, so this goes right to the heart of,frankly, the way our society functions,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The strikes have mainly hit foreign companies. This is causing problems for those manufacturers that shifted production to China to take advantage of lower labor costs and to cash in on the potential consumer market.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Orders for commercial airplanes are expected to be lower this year, as airlines cope with an expected America's Boeing executives in Dubai put on a brave face, saying that fulfilling back orders will keep their production lines busy.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

"When,in the context of Iran, you talk about the rise in the price of gas, you will see the impact of that on everything else, and I mean everything: not only transportation, but also production or presentation of tomatoes in the market,bread.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

"The mission found that the attack on the only remaining flour-producing factory, the destruction of a large part of the Gaza egg production, the bulldozing of huge tracts of agricultural land, and the bombing of some could not on any basis be justified on military grounds.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29