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Since 2019, Edison has spent billions of dollars on making its lines safer, including by undergrounding them and installing insulated wires.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

As its name indicates, the company is best known as a rocketship firm, with billions of dollars in U.S. government contracts aimed at transporting humans to the moon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Meta is already spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out the infrastructure it thinks it needs to compete in the artificial intelligence race.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

One is access to money, in the form of sanctions relief and the unfreezing of tens of billions of dollars from its oil revenues.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

She didn’t like going out in public to begin with, and it was torture for her when families worth billions tried to bargain for cheaper prices.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix