21.   Another billion was spent on building printing houses in eastern Berlin and Dresden, Saxony.

22.   As chairman of the Transportation Committee, Shuster controls how billions of federal construction and transportation dollars are spent.

23.   As head of the Olympic Organizing Committee, Tsutsumi persuaded the Japanese government to spend billions of dollars on improvements in Nagano, including a bullet train from Tokyo.

24.   At the same time, companies, municipalities and the government have spent billions of dollars on litigation and other issues related to the program.

25.   At the same time, competitors were spending billions of dollars on television commercials and flashy features to promote their portals.

26.   At the same time, it is spending billions of dollars to enter new businesses such as cable TV.

27.   At the same time, the federal and state governments spent billions on new expressways in the region allowing them to do just that.

28.   Banks and investment firms will have to spend billions of dollars to adapt their accounting systems to the new currency.

29.   Before that can happen, however, networks and local stations must spend billions of dollars on equipment that will enable them to transmit digital signals.

30.   Beijing plans to spend billions of dollars on roads and stadiums and pollution control.