Officials at the National Institutes of Health will grapple with this question as they allocate billions of dollars from the agency's budget this year.

Officials said the recommendation to allocate several billions was structured so as to give the incoming Administration considerable flexibility in the ultimate shape of the financing package.

The Census Bureau said today that it would not adjust the 2000 population tally for use in allocating billions of dollars in annual federal aid across the country.

The federal government has allocated billions for the city's recovery but much of that money has been wasted or remains hopelessly tied up in the bureaucracy.

The Sunday Telegraph has learned that officials who allocate billions of pounds to university teaching are secretly opposing moves which would allow spending on such courses to be cut back.

He wrote the 1980 Superfund law that allocated billions of dollars to clean up toxic-waste sites.

The shifting dynamics on Capitol Hill was clear as Congress returned to Washington to allocate billions of dollars for the relief effort.

That kind of undercount is really unacceptable in a democracy that depends on the accuracy of these figures to allocate legislative power and billions of dollars.

These initiatives allocate billions of dollars and have (wrongly, I think) become a critical part of governance here.

Commercial banks are also allocating billions of dollars to finance leveraged buyouts.