It predicts counterfeit sales will reach seventy-five billion dollars worldwide this year nearly double the level of two thousand five.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

In college basketball, a small school with a young coach nearly defeated a longtime powerhouse team for the national championship.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

His Democratic Party of Japan ended more than fifty years of nearly continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

For nearly a hundred years, Mr.Whisenant's family has grown fruits and vegetables, and sold them to businesses around the world.

VOA: special.2011.06.14

On Thursday the president noted estimates that nearly six million more have joined the uninsured since the recession intensified last September.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

It gave the United States nearly all of what is today the states of California, Nevada,Utah,Arizona,Colorado and New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

A recent study found that people who smoke are nearly two times as likely as non-smokers to develop Alzheimers disease.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

The researchers say they found one nearly complete flute made out of bones from a bird the griffon vulture.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

They said the larvae nearly always chose to follow the sound as they sought a place to call home.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Several art critics say the drawings in the show are not nearly as interesting and skillful as Tim Burtons films.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Yet nearly half of those whose most recent incident happened in school did not report it to an employee health office.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

It says that nearly one third of about eight hundred bird species in the United States are threatened in some way.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Under George Steinbrenner the Yankees made offers for nearly all of the best free agents, says sports economist Andrew Zimbalist.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

President Obama notes that it was Theodore Roosevelt who first called for health care reform nearly a century ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.12