The company's output of iron ore, as well as copper, zinc and nickel, surged in the last three months of 2009 because of strong demand from Chinese carmakers and construction companies.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Already the region's poorest country, Haiti was battered by four successive hurricanes last year that wiped out about 15 percent of the country's economic output and further damaged roads and other elements of an already weak infrastructure.

VOA: standard.2009.04.14

"There's been a nice recovery since the horrible 2008,2009 drop but we're still below where we were when the crisis began and all through that you had record output of jetliners, so we've got this rather dangerous overcapacity situation."

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Even if U.S.economic output expands in 2010 and more Americans head back to work, both critics and supporters of the president say the nation faces a more serious challenge to future economic viability: a rapidly growing deficit and a national debt estimated at more than $12 trillion.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15