11.   American companies will have to spend billions of dollars in coming years to decontaminate the most polluted Superfund sites.

12.   Americans have spent billions of dollars for mandated air bags in cars.

13.   Americans suffering from jumpy nerves about immigrants should demand that Washington spend more billions of their tax money to make the borders tighter, knowing total tight is impossible.

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

15.   AMD is betting hundreds of millions that it can keep gaining on Intel, which is spending billions to fend off its rival.

16.   Analysts had championed its leadership here, betting that Ericsson would benefit as operators began spending billions on networks to support new services.

17.   And in the end, he questioned the importance of the secrets that both sides risked lives and spent billions chasing after.

18.   And that means spending billions of dollars upgrading cable systems and convincing customers to switch away from what may be the only phone company they have ever known.

19.   Any agreement reached among Israel and its Arab neighbors, in other words, will require Americans to spend billions of dollars on military, economic and humanitarian aid.

20.   Any downtime is extremely expensive for WestPoint Stevens, which has spent billions of dollars on new equipment.