31.   The media mogul has billions at stake in business before the executive branch and Congress.

32.   The organization still has billions of dollars on reserve, along with substantial gold reserves it could tap.

33.   The province has billions of dollars worth of untapped mineral reserves.

34.   The Shaba province of Zaire has billions of dollars worth of untapped mineral reserves.

35.   The ventures capital community still has billions of dollars to invest.

36.   They have a secret treaty with the U.S. government, they run the LAPD, and they have billions in offshore bank accounts.

37.   VCs and their pension fund and other institutional partners have more billions to invest than ever.

38.   Wal-Mart Stores has billions in cash flow, explains Henry Blodget, an Internet analyst with Merrill Lynch, in summing up the threat.

39.   We have billions of dollars in money market funds that you can write checks against.

40.   Arab individual depositors and governments, especially oil-rich U.S. allies in the Gulf region, have billions of dollars in U.S. banks.