"This illegal billion-dollar industry will no longer be ignored by law enforcement."

It is estimated that between 26 million and 73 million sharks are killed each year to supply this billion-dollar industry.

Dr. Damadian built and tested the first such scanner in 1977, and today machines based on those principles constitute a rapidly growing, billion-dollar industry.

Now they're billion-dollar industries, popular the world over.

The billion-dollar industry of audio books may be one way that audio theater can expand its audience.

"I want to be West Virginia's billion-dollar industry," Senator Byrd happily admitted in 1990.

"I hope to become West Virginia's billion-dollar industry," the Senator told a crowd in Clarksburg.

"I want to be West Virginia's billion-dollar industry," he vowed in 1990.

"There are already billion-dollar industries out there that can use them."

Kidney trade, mostly illegal, was once a thriving billion-dollar industry in Pakistan until the introduction of a law to prevent it.