1.   Although Reagan wasted billions on it, Star Wars never made it off the drawing board.

2.   And he claims that consumers are still wasting billions of dollars a year.

3.   Before the bubble burst, these industries wasted billions of dollars.

4.   A victory by the resurging communists could bring recrimination against Clinton for both losing Russia and for having wasted billions of aid dollars there.

5.   But the Japanese rushed ahead, adopted the wrong standard and wasted billions of dollars.

6.   Defense Secretary William Cohen said the U.S. Defense Department wastes billions of dollars on activities such as inventory management that companies do better.

7.   GM wastes billions of dollars designing parts for all its many models, and the goal is to get parts designers working together.

8.   He also scored Congress for wasting billions of dollars on unneeded weapons systems.

9.   In Russia and Brazil, the fund wasted billions of dollars, and delayed reforms, by propping up currencies.

10.   Large corporations, particularly major financial institutions, wasted billions by rushing to the Internet with poorly conceived Web initiatives, Slywotzky said.