He paid record amounts to sign two of the first free agents: pitcher Catfish Hunter and hitter Reggie Jackson.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

The story is that he paid four dollars to make a recording for his mother.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

He paid them well. William Paley was always looking for people with special skills.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

He paid just ten dollars to record the deal.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

Sometimes he paid with his own kind of money.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

He paid her a dollar a week.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

He says about two-thirds of the cost can be paid for with money that is currently being "wasted,"

VOA: special.2009.07.25

I paid the wine man the full price he wanted without asking you to taste the wine first.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

After his crack-up,however, he discovered he was no longer welcome at the magazines that had paid him well.

VOA: special.2010.11.28

But the president says he will not let health reform be paid for in his words -- "on the backs of middle-class families."

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Most of it,he says, could be paid for by reducing waste in the existing health care system.

VOA: special.2009.09.12

Together he and Mister Godley paid local people to gather about three thousand female spiders daily.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

He led efforts to increase aid for higher education and increase wages for the lowest-paid workers.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

He was paid money to kill a man in the little town of Ada,Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

He was not the kind of person who never paid the money he owed.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

He was paid more than anyone else in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

John paid the Judge the 150 dollars that he had borrowed to buy traps and guns, then he slowly counted it into the Judge's hands, the money that his father had borrowed.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

Gillian wrote a report of how he spent the thousand dollars: "Paid by Robert Gillian, one thousand dollars on account of the eternal happiness, owed by Heaven to the best and dearest woman on earth."

VOA: special.2011.08.13

He was 22. President Obama paid tribute on Veteran's Day to all those who have sacrificed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

"We are done." Before he signed the bill, Mr.Obama paid tribute to all who fought for health reform since the early 20th century.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

and he says he has "paid a heavy price." The Olmert case is one of several recent corruption scandals that have toppled senior officials.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

He agreed a lot of attention is being paid to the cost of health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

But,for the most part, he sees a lot of people being paid to sweep the streets.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

This is a job that should be paid for, he says,just as the law states.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27