11.   Billions are lost this way.

12.   A lawsuit by the Native American Rights Fund accuses the government of mismanaging or losing billions of dollars in the funds.

13.   After five years of losing billions of dollars, airlines are returning to profitability and eventually will begin buying new aircraft again, the Airbus forecast said.

14.   After losing billions of dollars, Sony appears to have caught on.

15.   Airlines, which have lost billions of dollars in recent years, say they must do away with that standard to conserve desperately needed cash.

16.   Both countries have lost billions in lost trade with Iraq as a result of the sanctions.

17.   Business leaders and their congressional allies are concerned that American companies could lose billions of dollars in exports because of the Asian currency crisis.

18.   But private enterprise gave up on passenger trains a quarter-century ago, after losing billions of dollars.

19.   But one of the biggest reasons for its demise was KirchPayTV, which has lost billions on the German pay-television network called Premiere.

20.   But, specialists say, foreign governments have already lost billions of dollars in revenues that they would otherwise have collected.