"A number of expats are continuing to move out over the last couple of months, and Shanghai,and Kuala Lumpur and Vietnam have probably been the biggest recipients of those skills sets."

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

And how we figure that out and how we move in a direction that's both effective and affordable is the work that has to be done over the next two years."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Recently,Japan announced it would provide $5 billion over five years in additional aid to Afghanistan, and would move swiftly to fulfill an existing pledge of $1 billion in economic assistance to Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Under the agreement, painstakingly negotiated with the outgoing Japanese government over several years, the United States will move 8,000 U.S.Marines from the Futenma base on Japan's southern island of Okinawa to the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

"What you want to see over time is this number move not only below 450 , but below 400,000 before the economy is generating the strong job gains that we would all like to see.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

"Because it's happening so quickly, they haven't had time to adapt and change, if you imagine a climate changing over hundreds of thousands of years, bears and other animals would gradually move into other habitats,but because this is going to happen over decades, it will be too fast for them to adapt and look for other food sources,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.13