41.   Investors lost billions.

42.   It loses billions of dollars in tax revenue each year because offshore financial centers help people hide income from the Internal Revenue Service, Clinton administration officials said.

43.   It said it lost several billions of yen on one project alone in Thailand, a plant to process heavy oil into other products, she said.

44.   Kohlberg Kravis did avoid big bets on telecommunications stocks, an area in which some of its competitors lost billions in recent months.

45.   Major drug companies stand to lose billions of dollars in sales in the next five years as patents expire and they face generic competition.

46.   Matsushita lost billions on MCA-Universal before Seagram took the ailing studio off its hands.

47.   Milberg took over as chief executive two years ago, when BMW was losing billions of dollars on Rover, the British carmaker it had bought.

48.   Mining companies currently pay no federal royalties on the gold, silver and copper they extract, potentially losing billions in taxes from that industry.

49.   Once the GOP proposal falls into place, Florida stands to lose billions of health care dollars for the poor.

50.   People lost billions of dollars, misled by phony numbers ratified by the accountants.