11.   Cigarette makers are willing to pay billions of dollars in return for some protection from future lawsuits.

12.   Consumers and utilities are the victims, paying billions of dollars more for electricity than if the markets were truly competitive.

13.   Digital is demanding that Intel stop using its technology and pay billions of dollars in damages.

14.   If General Motors wins its suit in Detroit, Volkswagen could be forced to pay billions of dollars in compensation.

15.   In recent years, the company has paid billions to various states for the cost of treating smoking-related illnesses.

16.   Instead, we are paying billions to destroy the country and will pay billions more to rebuild it.

17.   It must also be willing to pay billions of dollars for one.

18.   It also would require the government to pay Gazprom billions of rubles for oil and gas that government agencies and state companies purchase but never pay for.

19.   Private industries and banks in Germany and Switzerland plan to pay billions more.

20.   Right now, the huge Baby Boom generation is in its peak earning years, paying billions in taxes into Medicare and Social Security and drawing nothing out.