71.   Delegates looking out their windows are left to ponder if they want to spend billions on more prison-cities or spend millions on schools and decent wages.

72.   Despite working for a firm that spends billions on technology, Lynch is a bit of a techno-klutz, associates and friends say.

73.   Defending his bill, Packwood said the federal government has spent billions of dollars over the years on welfare to no avail.

74.   DOES NOT COMPUTE By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum The IRS has spent billions to become user-friendly.

75.   Eager investors encouraged companies to spend billions of dollars on new computer and telecommunications equipment.

76.   Each will spend billions more building their networks.

77.   Even an Old Economy business like the auto industry spends billions of dollars designing and preparing to produce a new model.

78.   Existing providers of telephone and cable service, meanwhile, plan to spend billions of dollars getting old-fashioned lines and wires in shape for high-speed service.

79.   For example, do Americans support spending billions of dollars for a missile defense system while domestic programs are cut to balance the budget?

80.   For example, with its well-educated work force, Singapore plans to spend billions of dollars to reinvent itself as the biomedical center of Asia.