101.   In the hope that America would someday become a nation of on-line addicts, businesses have spent billions on the Internet.

102.   In the last few years the cable industry has spent billions of dollars to make its networks communicate in both directions.

103.   Instead, the trafficker is still at large and still spending his billions.

104.   Internet companies are spending billions of dollars online, in print and on television to establish their brands.

105.   Incidentally, do you wonder why we should spend billions of taxpayer dollars to clean up nuclear waste sites?

106.   It is forcing supermarket operators to spend billions of dollars remodeling outdated stores and investing in technology.

107.   It is spending billions of dollars to enhance systems that deliver Internet data to customers at high speeds.

108.   Investors backed ambitious low-orbiting satellite systems and spent billions preparing cities for wireless high-speed Internet access.

109.   It hurt the economy and we have to spend billions of dollars to keep the public safe.

110.   It recently announced that it was unwilling to spend the billions of dollars on developing new model it needed to compete.