CAFFERTY: And then went on to build this billion-dollar-a-year gambling empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2003] Reference

Markers for HGH therapy say it's become more than a billion-dollar-a-year business.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2008] Reference

The war's billion-dollar-a-year cost has stunted the economy and kept foreign investors away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost In The Hell Of War] Reference

Why, that's nearly as much as the GOP intends to give to the top 25 billion-dollar-a-year hedge fund managers!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard (RJ) Eskow: GOP's "Pledge" to Rob the Middle Class: No Jobs, No Health Care, No Security] Reference

High-quality Angolan diamonds could sustain a billion-dollar-a-year business for up to 60 years, according to experts cited by the Post.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Along the rural byways of Alabama and Georgia, where beef-cattle farming is a growing billion-dollar-a-year agribusiness, the drought is wreaking havoc.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Cattle Farmers,] Reference

Just think of how many chickens have to be killed every second of every day just to keep the billion-dollar-a-year Buffalo wing industry going full wing ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trans-Fat-scendence] Reference

By 2012, In-Stat expects in-flight broadband will be a billion-dollar-a-year business, with demand for in-flight broadband equipment nearly doubling between 2009 and 2013.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Long Delays, In-Flight Broadband Is Taking Off] Reference

Pfizer Inc. is preparing an advertising and public-relations campaign to counter concerns about its antismoking drug Chantix, once trumpeted as a potential billion-dollar-a-year blockbuster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pfizer Seeks to Counter Chantix Concerns] Reference

Corporation was nothing short of outraged when its billion-dollar-a-year child star Miley.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Jollibee ties up with Singapore firm on food manufacture in China] Reference

How do you turn a company from a small Internet start-up into a billion-dollar-a-year business?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Spectator] Reference

"The companies behind them are billion-dollar-a-year businesses, and many of those devices run on open source.".    From Wordnik.com.  [E-Commerce Times] Reference

Suffice to say, where there was once a billion-dollar-a-year business, the sports trading card market now pulls in.    From Wordnik.com.  [GMSV] Reference

"It's unbelievable how it has transformed," says Shtern, whose goal is for BTR to become a billion-dollar-a-year business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Market News] Reference

Under the billion-dollar-a-year Food for Peace program, the government sends others surplus commodities, such as wheat and corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Economic development experts say the heavy maintenance facility is a "billion-dollar-a-year game-changer" for Fresno County.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

"Skip" Hayward and a couple of relatives, parlayed a faux tribal recognition, into the billion-dollar-a-year "Foxwoods Casino" in Ledyard, Conn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii Reporter] Reference

Based in Fort Lauderdale, Broward Health is a billion-dollar-a-year operation treating 62,000 patients in 1,500 hospital beds and handling 450,000 out-p.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes] Reference

Those taxes brought in barely half of the new revenue predicted and then produced two consecutive years of billion-dollar-a-year declines in state revenues.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

Though the show aims to entertain, it became quite serious for Bedford, whose billion-dollar-a-year business ranks as one of the top air carriers in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com Weather News] Reference

Wilson's taxes brought in barely half of the new funds he had predicted and then produced two consecutive years of billion-dollar-a-year declines in state revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orange County Register - Homepage] Reference

Today, drug trafficking is a billion-dollar-a-year enterprise in Haiti, generating tremendous profits in a country where most people survive on a few dollars a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Opinion] Reference

"This will be an economic engine that will have a billion-dollar-a-year impact," said Steve Geil, president of the Economic Development Corp. serving Fresno County.    From Wordnik.com.  [MercedSun-Star.com: front] Reference

"This will be an economic engine that will have a billion-dollar-a-year impact," said Steve Geil, president of the Economic Development Corporation serving Fresno County.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

Under the proposal, the district board would lease its billion-dollar-a-year network of four public hospitals and 11 clinics to a nonprofit group overseen by a board of business leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - News] Reference

"This more than a billion-dollar-a-year drain on our industry is depressing demand for U.S. cattle and driving our domestic cattle prices down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Group Calls NCBA's Attack on COOL Downright Deceptive] Reference

His billion-dollar-a-year enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: The Editorial Class] Reference

Tourism here is a billion-dollar-a-year industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2008] Reference

"It becomes a billion-dollar-a-year industry," Gregg said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Now children's stage is easily a billion-dollar-a-year industry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The T. Rex Tour] Reference

Many are imported legally in the billion-dollar-a-year exotic-animal industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

Today, it's a billion-dollar-a-year risk--perhaps the single biggest for the retail industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaner Shelves, Leaner Profits?] Reference