1.   After years of pumping billions of dollars into the United States because it seemed the land of opportunity, foreign investors are pulling back on every front.

2.   During that period, the CIA was pumping billions of dollars into the Afghan resistance movement.

3.   Education groups say pumping billions into school construction would provide a quick economic pick-me-up.

4.   Foreign corporations from Ford to Microsoft are pumping billions of dollars into the country.

5.   Investors are becoming wary of pumping billions of dollars into numerous systems to provide telephone service or high-speed data transmission.