21.   The sale of state assets could raise billions of dollars, reducing the budget deficit while increasing foreign investment in the country, traders said.

22.   The structure was copied by scores of other cash starved developers, raising billions of dollars in the process.

23.   Analysts say the tenders are meant to raise billions of dollars for the cash-strapped government and set a benchmark for energy privatizations in central and eastern Europe.

24.   Another way Lucent may raise billions of dollars is through the sale of its profitable optical-fiber business.

25.   Brown urged local governments to raise billions by selling off property, too.

26.   Donors gently prodded Egypt to speed economic reforms Tuesday at a conference devoted to raising billions of dollars in foreign aid for the key Mideast country.

27.   Energy companies raised billions of dollars in the first six months of the year through initial public offerings, but investors who plugged into these stocks mostly got zapped.

28.   It raised billions of dollars and created a global fiber-optic network.

29.   Republicans believe many taxpayers would take advantage of the temporarily lower rate to sell investments, raising billions of dollars in tax revenue.

30.   The European Union decided Monday to postpone an international conference scheduled for later this month to raise billions of dollars to rebuild Bosnia and divide the cost burden.