81.   Ford is spending billions of dollars to develop cleaner internal combustion engines, alternate-fuel vehicles and cleaner factories, Trotman said.

82.   Foreign oil companies, waiting to spend billions of dollars on exploration projects, are waiting for the government to complete the details.

83.   For decades, taxpayers have spent billions subsidizing the American merchant marine fleet.

84.   Forty-one years later, Congress and Clinton, spooked over countries we could scorch in seconds, rush to spend billions on weapons.

85.   Gore would spend billions to make industry more energy-efficient, thus counteracting global warming.

86.   Having spent billions for airwave space, many small PCS operators are being spurned by traditional lenders and have nowhere to turn for equipment financing but their suppliers.

87.   Having spent billions for the gulf war, Saudi Arabia is financially strapped and not eager to spend much more.

88.   Governments, businesses and individuals will spend billions, maybe trillions, of dollars to fix what is simply a bone-headed, preventable mistake.

89.   He decries the incarceration of non-violent criminals and points out that taxpayers spend billions to build prisons for drug offenders while public schools fall apart.

90.   Halla spent billions of dollars on a new shipyard, only to face over capacity.