1.   Cohen claimed that criminals posing as salesmen cheat Americans out of billions of dollars each year.

2.   American drug companies already lose hundreds of millions of dollars every year to product knock-offs and patent infringement.

3.   Americans spend billions of dollars each year trying to lose weight.

4.   And Democrats say interest payments of hundreds of billions of dollars each year will continue to sap money that should be available for discretionary spending programs.

5.   An unusual coalition of lawmakers is pressing President Bush to increase global spending on AIDS by hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.

6.   And, my brother the tycoon makes up the shortfall each month, to the tune of many thousands of dollars each year.

7.   Argentine government efforts to modernize labor laws that business leaders say will save them millions of dollars each year have hit a snag.

8.   As the Washington watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste points out, the program is losing billions of dollars each year to fraud.

9.   At the very least, you would be dishing out hundreds of millions of dollars each year to rivals without getting anything in return.

10.   Austrian minister Wilhelm Molterer told Bloomberg that the introduction of new processing and disposal standards for cattle would cost businesses in his country millions of dollars every year.