1.   And Republicans, to fulfill their pledge to balance the budget in seven years without raising tax rates, will need every extra billion the IRS can find.

2.   And why is it a good idea to give extra billions in oil profits to Iran, Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, etc?

3.   Earlier this year, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department directed the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to begin printing the extra billions.

4.   Extra billions were shipped quickly to South Korea to buy time.

5.   Now, the question is how best to spend the extra billions of dollars expected from Congress for the new war on terrorism.

6.   Reforms could easily run up extra billions in spending.

7.   Scientific inventiveness, for example, will help raise agricultural productivity and provide ways of feeding the extra billions.

8.   They called the extra billions in the spending bill a small downpayment toward beefing up the post-Cold War Pentagon.

9.   But analysts also predict the economy will come roaring back next year, helped by the extra billions that will be spent on reconstruction and security.

10.   Rumsfeld told a congressional committee Friday that the extra billions will go almost entirely to fixing problems of the past rather than investing in a military of the future.