1.   A government commission is now investigating how these billions were made.

2.   New factories that can make billions of pounds of polyester are opening or planned.

3.   As a result, banks began making billions of dollars in speculative loans that eventually went sour.

4.   Bill Clinton was manipulated by a man who made billions manipulating foreign markets.

5.   A googol is a number so unbelievably huge that it makes billions, trillions and even quadrillions seem like small change.

6.   Allen has made billions from Microsoft and represents the steady ownership that commissioner Gary Bettman is seeking for league franchises.

7.   Considering the fact that he has made billions in the lowest-common-denominator trade, Spelling seems curiously out of touch.

8.   Endesa also is reworking a joint venture with Enersis that it hopes to use to make billions of dollars in acquisitions of Latin American utilities in years ahead.

9.   Exxon has recovered, making billions of dollars in profits and planning a merger with Mobil Oil.

10.   He even made his billions as the result of a government program.