21.   Citizens for Tax Justice estimates the lost taxes from fringe benefits to be in the tens of billions of dollars each year, but not many employees complain.

22.   Deferred maintenance of sewers and streets led to a crumbling infrastructure that costs the city tens of millions of dollars each year in emergency repairs.

23.   Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars this year to upgrade its system, AOL acknowledged that it has had trouble coping with a crushing load of e-mail.

24.   Domestic violence costs businesses billions of dollars each year, domestic violence prevention experts say.

25.   Dozens of United Ways from Massachusetts to San Francisco have cut off money amounting to millions of dollars each year.

26.   Federal investigators described them as wholly owned subsidiaries of bin Laden that allow him to skim off tens of millions of dollars each year to pay for his enterprises.

27.   Every one of us is touched by the war on drugs, which consumes billions of tax dollars each year.

28.   For businesses, giving their employees NCs, instead of more powerful and versatile PCs, could supposedly save thousands of dollars each year in operating costs per machine.

29.   Few currencies, however, have been weaker than the dollar this year.

30.   Foreign orders for these planes increase by several billion dollars every year.