Sri Lanka has been seeking a two billion dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund to help its economy.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

was too big to fail. The Federal Reserve rescued the American International Group with an eighty-five billion dollar loan.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

The idea is similar to the administration's four billion dollar Race to the Top competition to reform schools.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

But spending cuts in the eighty-five billion dollar budget might still not be enough to solve long-term problems.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

That includes major improvements to the airport in Johannesburg and a new one billion dollar airport in Durban.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

The Italian government is trying to fix the problem with the construction of a seven billion dollar system of moving flood barriers.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

The seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollar American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is also unpopular because of its cost.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

About six billion of it is in Islamic bonds, including a three and a half billion dollar bond set for repayment on Monday.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

He called it a "tragedy" and a "twenty billion dollar shakedown" of a private company.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

The House passed its eight hundred twenty billion dollar version of the bill last week.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Mexico received a forty-seven billion dollar line of credit for one year.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Congress passed his seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollar economic recovery plan.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

The fifteen billion dollar bill now goes to the House.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

The forty-four billion dollar deal is Berkshire's biggest ever.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

"The budget that would have no tax increases, a budget that is cutting spending we deal with the entire twenty-six billion dollar deficit, around fifteen billion dollars in cuts that we are making."

VOA: special.2009.07.31

In recent weeks AIG and its multi-billion dollar taxpayer bailout have become targets of public fury and frustration.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Mr.Hatoyama's government has already proposed an additional 31 billion dollar stimulus package to bolster employment and economic growth.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

by Chinese officials, some 190 nations and 50 international organizations are participating in the multi-billion dollar event.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

Congress recently passed Mr.Obama's $787 billion dollar economic recovery plan without a single Republican vote in the House of Representatives and with only three opposition-party votes in the Senate.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

The loans are a share of the one-hundred-fifty-six-billion-dollar rescue deal that Greece secured last year.

VOA: special.2011.07.01

Snack foods made with corn are a six-billion-dollar industry in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

The crisis brought new attention to the billion-dollar market for travel insurance.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

A ten-billion-dollar deal aims to create the world's largest exchange company.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

So the Pentagon awarded a 4-billion-dollar contract to build a version with a lower center of gravity and improved suspension.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01