He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans end next year, replaced by a middle-class tax cut.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Nowadays the average company in the Middle East takes twenty-one days to start a business.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The suspect was born in a tiny northwestern village to an upper-middle class family.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

It is narrow in the middle. On top is a large ring-like structure.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

She leads us to a two-level room in the middle of the museum.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

However, his life took a different turn in the middle nineteen-thirties.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

He was a middle-of-the-road Democrat.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

The North's warning comes in the middle of a week of North-South talks, seen by many as a thaw between the two.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

"We are seeing a lot of actions to try to help solve the conflict in the Middle East on the basis of two-state solution."

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

More than half say a nuclear-armed Iran would be more positive for the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Its smaller companies will not be covered. The head of Middle East research at Swiss-based financial firm UBS, Saud Masud,says it is a step in the right direction.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

"It's a long awaited step." Paul Salem,who heads the Beirut-based Carnegie Middle East Center, thinks that President Obama's trip to Cairo is likely to have positive reverberations across the Arab world.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

The White House is also promising action to make it a little easier for middle-class students to pay for college,and to provide expanded community services to help families caring for elderly relatives.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

President Obama said the current system has led the country to a breaking point, imposing hardships on middle-class Americans who struggle to pay for health care, who are unable to obtain it.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Appearing with Clinton Thursday at a meeting of the American Jewish Committee, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel's right-leaning coalition government now sees a two-state solution of the Middle East conflict as a "compelling imperative."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Yulmi Rock,a middle-aged worker who came to the rally with other members of his family says many who have come to the United States are professionals who just want to work for this country and make a contribution.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

Alex Vatanka,a senior Middle East analyst for the Britain-based Jane's Publishing Group, says that compounded official anger about Western broadcasts to Iran when it was already the target of broadcasts by Voice of America's own Persian News Network.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

The head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Center for Peace in the Middle East,Paul Salem, says Arab states like Libya and Egypt are trying to demonstrate they are independent of the West by striking a middle-ground with respect to President Bashir.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

That is in addition to billions of dollars of aid to the Middle East and North Africa, including a $700-million Millennium Challenge Corporation grant to Morocco for fruit tree farming and small-scale fisheries as well as stronger financial services and enterprise support.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

A middle-aged man who works at the market complained that it made no sense to him why anyone would put a bomb in a crowded vegetable market: He said that all the traders and sellers were going about their business when the explosion took place.

VOA: standard.2009.06.01

"And I think that many Israelis are saying, 'Well wait a second, where is the friendly U.S.administration that Democratic and Republican administrations have been known to be?'" President Obama's supporters say he is trying to take a more "even-handed" approach to the Middle East conflict than his predecessors.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

"The bus went into the middle of the desert and at a certain moment the call to prayer came just lilting through the desert - first time I've ever heard it - and then the bus stopped and all of those colorful people got off the bus."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21