41.   Businesses have spent billions attempting to fix the problem.

42.   Businesses spend billions of dollars encouraging people to spend, and many people just cannot resist the temptation.

43.   But he would also spend billions to put in place a missile defense system far more ambitious than the one the Clinton administration is pondering.

44.   But several conservative organizations also criticized spending billions of dollars for what they called corporate welfare.

45.   But Republicans themselves have yet to figure out how to hold the line on spending and not spend billions of dollars from the Social Security surplus.

46.   But Reagan praised the military leaders of both nations and spent billions in lethal aid to their governments and the Nicaraguan Contras.

47.   But U.S. officials estimate that Russia will have to spend billions to correct all the problems in accounting for and protecting its nuclear supply.

48.   By the time it is finished, American companies will have spent billions upon billions to decontaminate the most polluted Superfund sites.

49.   Cable companies are spending billions on the belief that Americans will pay for immediate gratification.

50.   But, she noted, governments spend billions of dollars on prisons with no measurable impact on the incidence of violent crime.