51.   Retailers, who lose billions of dollars to shoplifters each year, say they are only trying protect their businesses.

52.   Scientists now know they were wrong about the still-popular notion that the brain loses billions of neurons as we age.

53.   Since the war, Turkey has lost billions of dollars as a result of trade sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations.

54.   South American airlines have lost billions of dollars in recent years as competition has grown from international carriers.

55.   Spellings said states must take part in the federally mandated effort to enhance school accountability or risk losing billions of dollars in federal education funding.

56.   State and local government officials say they are losing billions in uncollected taxes on Internet sales.

57.   Sony found that out, losing billions on Columbia Pictures.

58.   Still, traders became fearful of losing billions if they were caught short, and they began a buying spree that brought the dollar back.

59.   Surely in this day and age investors should not lose billions to fraud simply because California is in a different time zone.

60.   That could result in the state losing billions of dollars in federal highway funds.