"Bonuses paid out by profitable companies to outstanding employees make sense,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

More than $377,000 in rewards has been paid out.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

But his message had to compete for attention with news that the giant insurance company American International Group,or AIG, paid out $165 million in bonuses to employees after the government agreed to bail out the financially troubled company.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

Some music writers say John Lomax paid himself too much out of Lead Belly's income.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

And that health insurance is tax-funded, particularly for the poor, so that what happens is the insurance now pays the cost that the people would have paid previously out of their own pockets."

VOA: special.2010.11.24

Majority Democrats in the House and Senate crafted various legislative proposals that would try to recover funds by imposing sharp taxes on bonuses paid by companies that were rescued by government bail out money.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

Someone collects it. I get paid and I get to feed my family.' To them,for the most part, that drug goes out internationally, to the West and it really doesn't have a personal connection to them.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

People have crowded onto trains, buses and ferries in a bid to carry out their travel plans - and cab companies say they are being paid thousands of dollars to ferry people across Europe by car.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

Mr.Obama used his weekly address to re-focus attention on his budget plan and get it through Congress, after a week dominated by outrage over huge bonuses paid at companies that are being bailed out by the government.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

"People who have paid among them more than $100 hundred dollars right now are going, 'Oh for crying out loud!'" Garfield says they could eventually break their ties to golf's golden boy, while Woods takes his break from the sport.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

He says increased demand for the fish could solve two problems - getting paid to fish a nuisance out of the river, and returning the populations of native fish to normal levels not seen in several decades.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19