41.   Basically, rock star wannabes are spending millions of dollars on healthy additives to vodka.

42.   Before fledgling incubators could make billions of dollars on half-baked business ideas.

43.   Before that can happen, however, networks and local stations must spend billions of dollars on equipment that will enable them to transmit digital signals.

44.   Beijing plans to spend billions of dollars on roads and stadiums and pollution control.

45.   BellSouth is the largest investor, spending billions of dollars on licenses and networks.

46.   Besides, many viewers may resist spending thousands of dollars on a new television set that can capture the benefit of HDTV.

47.   Big markets also may exist in developed countries, where cellular phone companies want to expand their coverage territory without spending billions of dollars on new base stations.

48.   Both companies earn dollars on their export sales.

49.   A calculator could then interpret those losses in dollars on a building-wide basis for an entire year, perhaps on a colored chart.

50.   A drop in the dollar on the back of reports showing weakness in the U.S. economy capped early gains.