But a national survey found that in recent years foreign language teaching decreased in public elementary and middle schools.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

In some cases the child takes the mother's surname as a middle name and the father's name as the family name.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Counterfeit medications are also a problem in the Middle East and in many countries of the former Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

It gets worse over time. The disease affects a small area of cells in the middle of the brain.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

The Hawaiian Islands were created in the middle of the Pacific Ocean as the plate moved slowly over a hot spot.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

I may come up with an idea and it may end up being something in the middle of the piece.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Jordan was the first stop on a Middle East trip in which he also visited Israel and the Palestinian territories.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Half the money from the festival will be given to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee for flood relief.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

The party opposes his plan to cut taxes for middle class Americans and use of government spending to increase economic activity.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

Historians say she was the strongest influence on the education of American young people during the middle of the nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

But the Ministry for Higher Education in the south has now moved the opening date to the middle of May.

VOA: special.2011.02.24

He had to take care of her. He says he woke up in the middle of the night as usual.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

You would not want to get off one horse and on to another in the middle of a river.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

After he finished his studies at Harvard in eighteen seventy-six, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.11