• The complaint details bribes totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, laptop computers, cameras, travel and entertainment expenses that were routinely gifted to government officials by IBM employees over the course of a decade in exchange for millions of dollars of government business.

    WSJ: IBM Settles Bribery Charges With SEC

  • China will continue to employ hundreds of millions of low-skilled workers over the next decade, but manufacturing companies in China will also utilize hundreds of millions of robots in the future.

    FORBES: Taking Stock Of The U.S.-China Partnership

  • During the last decade, millions of people have continued to cross the border illegally mostly in Arizona.

    NPR: San Diego Fence Provides Lessons in Border Control

  • Under the leadership of genomics pioneer William Haseltine , Human Genome Sciences (nasdaq: HGSI - news - people ) has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over about a decade to develop drugs.

    FORBES: Genomics Pioneer Takes On Anthrax

  • But popular groups not quite big enough to make the "Rock Band" playlist are also preparing material for the do-it-yourself upload store, including Creed and Evanescence, each of which has sold tens of millions of albums in the past decade.

    WSJ: MTV Games Seeks Buzz for 'Rock Band'

  • The biggest demand is from China, Huijbregts said, where ivory household items, like chopsticks, are increasingly sought after by tens of millions of people newly enriched by the country's past decade of meteoric economic growth.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Let's look at one of the biggest changes in medical practice of the past decade: the decision to stop putting millions of postmenopausal women on hormone replacement therapy, which postulated that replacing the estrogen and progesterone their bodies were no longer making would do them long-term good.

    FORBES

  • Compared not only with the bad old days of Maoist excess, but even with earlier this decade, China today offers hundreds of millions of citizens far more control over their own lives.

    ECONOMIST: China

  • In Latin America alone, over the past decade, tens of millions of people have stepped out of poverty and into the middle class.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on Trade and the Economy

  • In Brazil, a decade of prosperity propelled millions into the middle class and fueled a demand for pets of all kinds, but especially dogs.

    CNN: Brazil love motel for pets opens doors

  • Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent over the last decade trying to convince men and women watching football games that Coors Light somehow tastes colder and, therefore, better than other beers.

    FORBES: Bud Scores NFL Contract But Coors Is A Better Buy

  • For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history.

    FORBES: A Eulogy For PIPA After Its Violent Death In Washington

  • China and India are twice as rich as they were a decade ago, taking millions out of poverty.

    ECONOMIST: The world economy

  • Over the past decade, Israeli Arabs have seized millions of dunams of state land.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel's unwavering Guardsmen

  • The government wants to move many tens of millions of rural residents into urban areas in the coming decade.

    ECONOMIST: China's housing market

  • China has done what no other country has been able to do in the last decade, and that is bring millions of people out of dollar-a-day poverty and into the working and middle classes.

    FORBES: An 'Occupy' China Unlikely To Take Cues From Wall Street Movement

  • But I still feel that with migration flows numbering in the 10s of millions of people leaving and entering the country over the decade there should have been more impact on the population totals, not to mention there must of been at least some difference in population between 1991 and 1996.

    FORBES: Five Myths About Russia

  • But the company has already invested tens of millions in the stem cell therapy over the past decade.

    BBC: Stem cell trial halted

  • We also know, anecdotally, of how, in the past decade, millions more Americans have become dependent on food stamps and on jobless benefits (not just for the six-month normal duration, but now for as long as two years).

    FORBES: The 47% Should Especially Favor Romney/Ryan On Election Day

  • The Samaria Regional Council alleges that over the past decade, foreign governments have donated hundreds of millions of euros, dollars and shekels to these Israeli "grassroots" groups.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Agents of influence

  • Paul Panzera, director of sales at SCA Promotions, said his company had been putting its capital on the line in perfect-bracket contests for more than a decade, backing competitions that have collectively garnered millions of entries, and the closest anyone got was 59 of the 63 games.

    WSJ: Trying for a Perfect Bracket? Insurers Will Take Those Odds

  • The decade also saw the arrival of the internet in millions of homes and workplaces.

    BBC: The Panorama decades

  • Over the next decade, this group could grow into tens of millions, forming a pool of willing and able recruits for the political opposition.

    WSJ: Minxin Pei: Communist China's Perilous Phase

  • In 1999 Texas authorised a colonias initiative to co-ordinate state efforts to improve transport, housing, health and water, and hundreds of millions of state dollars have been allocated for the work over the past decade.

    ECONOMIST: The colonias of the Mexican border

  • Finally, it seemed, racing in New York could carry on without having to rely on state government, which for a decade had made perfectly clear its disregard for the millions of dollars and thousands of jobs generated by the racing industry.

    FORBES: New York Racing At A Crossroads...Again.

  • Over the past decade, the anti-vaccine movement has successfully convinced millions of parents to leave their kids unvaccinated, and the result has been serious outbreaks of whooping cough, haemophilus, measles, chicken pox, and mumps around the U.S. and Europe.

    FORBES: Congress Holds An Anti-Vaccination Hearing

  • But UnitedHealth also stands to benefit from millions of Baby Boomers joining the ranks of the Medicare-insured over the next decade.

    FORBES: Still-Recovering UnitedHealth Shares May Be a Bargain

  • And over the last decade, the manufacturing workforce shrank by 33 percent, leaving millions of skilled, hardworking Americans sitting as idle as the plants that they once worked in.

    WHITEHOUSE: Signing the Manufacturing Enhancement Act of 2010

  • Pierre Matisse died a decade ago aged 89, leaving an estate worth hundreds of millions of dollars along with thousands of unpublished letters he exchanged with his artists and 800 more with his father.

    ECONOMIST: Post-Impressionists

  • For more than a decade, the Mexican government has played an active role advocating for millions of migrants abroad.

    CNN: Mexico 'welcomes' new U.S. immigration reform push

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