41.   Germany has paid billions in reparations to Israel for the Holocaust and has attempted to play an important role in stimulating dialogue between Israeli and Arab leaders.

42.   However, the judge said the government still could try to force the industry to pay billions of dollars for allegedly concealing the dangers of smoking.

43.   In fact it is utterly unrealistic to expect any outside agencies or investors to pay the billions required for investment.

44.   Japan pays billions of dollars a year to help maintain them.

45.   Medicare, the federal health program that insures the elderly, paid billions of dollars over the past decade for Lupron.

46.   Medicaid, for instance, pays billions in subsidies to private hospitals willing to treat the poor.

47.   On Monday, Bronfman told a news conference that Switzerland can wipe out its debt to Nazi Holocaust victims if it pays billions of dollars to a restitution fund.

48.   Primakov also stressed that Russia was committed to paying the billions of dollars in debt it owes to foreign banks and institutions, ITAR-Tass said.

49.   Since World War II, the German government has paid billions in compensation for health damage and imprisonment.

50.   Tehran would like Baghdad to pay billions of dollars in war reparations.