You can use Search Page to perform a variety of searches, such as:

• A word or phrase.
• The prefix of a word or phrase.
• A word that is near another word.

Following is a review of the basics of query syntax:

• Simple term:
  
  Sarajevo
  
  
• Phrase in simple term:
  
  High Representative OR Principal Deputy
  
  
• AND in phrase:
  
  Wolfgang Petritsch AND Kofi Annan
  
  
• AND NOT in phrase:
  
  press article AND NOT Avaz
  
  
• Prefix term:
  
  bos*
  
  
• Proximity term:
  
  Colin Powell NEAR meeting