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Freight-forwarding firms, which provide the backbone of the $100 billion-a-year air-freight market, are among the most important but least-publicized parts of the security chain.

Focus on Cargo Security Steps Andy Pasztor 2010

Because until we sort out America's trade mess -- which must start by zeroing out, or close to it, our $600 billion-a-year trade deficit -- our economy will never truly be healthy again.

Ian Fletcher: Why Donald Trump Is Right on Trade Ian Fletcher 2011

Sales of traditional games are flat in the $10-billion-a-year videogame industry.

Virtual Products, Real Profits Nick Wingfield 2011

The roughly $9 billion-a-year enterprise, in other words, might take next season off.

Will the Lights Go Out in the NFL? David Feith 2011

Cheap copies of Lipitor, a $12 billion-a-year seller, are expected to hit the key U.S. market at the end of November and in Europe from next year, so competition in an already-tough market is set to rise.

Astra Slides as Drug Fails to Top Rival Sten Stovall 2011

Brussels will next week open a debate on how to reform the Common Agricultural Policy after 2013 as part of a push to make the €53 billion-a-year scheme more accountable to consumers and more consistent with EU environmental goals.

OECD Reviews EU Farm Payment Plan Caroline Henshaw 2011

Once projected by analysts as a potential $1-billion-a-year drug, it has fallen short of the mark despite extensive marketing that included retaining singer Barry Manilow, who has suffered from an irregular heartbeat, as a consultant.

FDA Reviews Heart-Rhythm Drug Thomas M. Burton 2011

At the same time, Mr. Apotheker disclosed plans to potentially spin out the company's $40-billion-a-year PC business.

Crisis Unfolds at H-P Over CEO Ben Worthen 2011

Xylem executives project revenue growing by as much as 8% a year in part through acquisitions in the company's fragmented $30 billion-a-year market.

ITT Businesses to Make Debut as Separate Firms Bob Tita 2011

Repeal supporters said the $6 billion-a-year subsidy amounts to wasteful support for a fuel whose promises of cost savings, lower pollution and energy efficiency have not materialized.

Ethanol Suffers Rare Loss in Senate Naftali Bendavid 2011