Besides expanding the Federal Reserve's powers to police banks and speculative markets, the measure also contains provisions to prevent financial institutions from becoming too big to fail.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

President Obama is back from his first trip to Asia since becoming what he called "America's first Pacific president."

VOA: special.2009.11.21

Microfinance provides poor people with a way to build savings and work toward becoming part of a country's official financial system.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

But as one doctor advises her patients, becoming a non-smoker is one way to gain control of your life.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

He has now helped to build more than ten straw bale houses and says the building material is becoming more widely accepted.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Evidence is increasing that common influenza viruses are becoming resistant to the main drug used to treat them.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

She came closer than any other woman in American history to becoming a major party's presidential candidate.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

In this way,Roosevelt and Willkie tried to keep America's growing involvement in the war from becoming a major political issue in the election.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

But it warns that mosquitoes are becoming increasingly resistant to pesticides, the products used to kill insects.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

And he continued to be successful. But Seeger says he never planned on becoming a musician.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

In this way,he prevented Hershey,Pennsylvania from becoming a factory town in which the workers were forced to pay their employers for a place to live.

VOA: special.2010.12.05

He said,"It has been my decision since becoming a candidate to make no speeches.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Wal-Mart has worked to improve its public image by becoming a more "green" company.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

4 months after becoming secretary of state, Upshur offered a statehood treaty to Texas.

VOA: special.2009.02.05