Several automakers introduced new models. And a pay hike announced by the government for its employees with retrospective effect put money in the hands of many people.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

"We have got to find new models of economic growth, particularly at a time when consumers are just not going to be spending as much as they were, and that had been driving a lot of economic growth over the last several months,"

VOA: standard.2009.07.14

But a government program that paid Americans to trade in old vehicles for new, fuel-saving models increased car sales in the summer.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Newspaper companies like Hearst,he says, are experimenting with new business models to see what works.

VOA: special.2009.03.21