Another American trade official, who insisted on anonymity, said that the ban would cover $40 billion to $50 billion a year worth of Government contracts.

Dresser now sells about $100 million a year worth of equipment and services to the Soviet Union but believes the potential is far larger.

European companies won an average of only $20 million a year worth of these contracts from 1989 through 1991, the official said.

The networks each devote $500 million a year worth of advertising time to promote themselves.

Two years of a foreign language (French or Spanish) are required, and so is one year worth of computer literacy.

The Soviet Union alone imports about $1 billion a year worth of machine tools from industrial countries.

As incentive, regular officers were offered 100 livres or 50 livres and a year worth of rations.

Access to the Empire State Building is more controlled now, and the building's managers say they have added $6 million a year worth of security measures.

The company sells billions of dollars a year worth of drugs that treat the side effects of chemotherapy.

Until Canada drastically cut taxes in 1994, more than $1 billion a year worth of cigarettes was being smuggled, according to the Canadian revenue authorities.