1.   His life had been spent building empires.

2.   But the amounts they are spending to build Web sites offer clues to how they see the future.

3.   Enron will keep spending to build consumer awareness of the company as a brand name in power and gas sales, he said.

4.   For the past three years they have been making the largest profit margins in history and will see no need to spend money building tenderizing plants, he said.

5.   Future Saturdays will be spent building pens for a slew of animals from turkeys and ducks to chickens and calves.

6.   It sells instant infrastructure, cutting out months that typical start-ups spend to build the plumbing behind their Web sites.

7.   Moreover, their business plans assume that they will recoup the money they spend building their networks by controlling the content that passes along them.

8.   She said too little foreign money was being spent to build job-creating factories, and too much poured into stocks and bonds of Philippine companies.

9.   The company will need to reach many million more customers before it ever earns a profit on the billions of dollars it is spending to build the business.

10.   These days, much of his time is spent building a new home for his wife and young daughter, helping his uncle with whatever is needed.