11.   Just weeks ago, such a sale was being tossed around among budget negotiators as a way to raise billions of dollars for the U.S. Treasury.

12.   Lots of Wall Street firms did well handling the bonds that raised billions for construction, he said.

13.   Once the darling of Wall Street, Winstar had no trouble raising billions of dollars in capital.

14.   One key reason many analysts expect RCN to survive the downturn is that McCourt raised billions of dollars when the getting was good.

15.   Telekom has raised additional billions through the initial public offering of its T-Online Internet subsidiary as well as through the sale of several regional cable television networks.

16.   That idea has drawn considerable interest, as lawmakers have watched the Federal Communications Commission raise billions from auctions of wireless telephone licenses.

17.   The commission would auction off the old airwaves to companies offering exciting new consumer services, thereby raising billions of dollars.

18.   The government has auctioned off other parts of the spectrum to cellular phone companies and raised billions.

19.   The first two approaches would raise billions of dollars the government could use to cut other costly taxes.

20.   The rising price of oil has also allowed Iraq to raise billions in revenues, significantly easing the strains placed on its economy after the Persian Gulf war.