in the past decade and a half. He also says more than half of all Americans working in the private sector are either employed by a small business or own one.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

He apparently did not feel at ease playing with a big band, even one that followed his own musical ideas.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

One reason for the speech was the state of Arizona's recent passage of its own law against illegal immigration.

VOA: special.2010.07.03

The United States had sent an astronaut of its own into space for the first time in nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

"You cannot choose your own classes. And you don't have the right to drop out of one of them."

VOA: special.2009.11.05

She decides to make every recipe in Child's best known cookbook in one year and write her own book about the experience.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

They were men who fought one war against the king of England, and were now prepared to fight against their own government.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Barack Obama plans to honor the 16th president, one of his political heroes, at his own inauguration.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Mattel says ninety percent of girls in the United States between the ages of three and ten own at least one Barbie doll.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Others seem to run from one danger to another, like young Bayard Sartoris, seeking his own destruction.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

She would one day be part of this world and would make her own rebellious art.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

I think he would sacrifice any life, even his own, for one of his experiments."

VOA: special.2009.05.23

"Last year,one of our staff members actually brought his own guitar and amplifier and led us in several rounds of song, Christmas songs and holiday songs.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

At one point, she even lent the committee some of her own money.

VOA: special.2010.06.27