A program that paid Americans to buy new vehicles with higher fuel economy lifted sales for automakers.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

If they're paid by commission on each trade they just keep calling you up and coming up with new ideas for new trades.

如果他们的薪水来自交易中抽取的佣金,他们就会不断拜访你,告诉你一些关于新交易的新点子

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It paid for new roads,bridges, and government buildings -- for almost anything the congressmen wanted.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

The country's Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told reporters at a Tbilisi new conference the plot was coordinated and paid for by Russia.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05