Quotes about billion
billion coast colleagues congress consensus efforts emergency ensure finding forward gulf help number options people provided recovery region solution viable
Congress has provided $60 billion already for reconstruction, recovery and rehabilitation efforts to help the people in the Gulf Coast region get back on their feet, ... Currently, I am working with a number of my colleagues to come up with viable options for finding offsets for this emergency spending. I look forward to finding consensus on a solution that will make the most sense to ensure that we do not deficit-spend. Judd Gregg
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Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts. Michael Enzi
billion co2 man oceans per possibly produce produces tons
The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what could possibly be the concern? John Raese
billion exports likely million pounds
That's over 3 billion more pounds of meat. Exports are likely to go up only 600 million pounds this year.
billion governor huge terrible
That's the $4 billion question. If the governor is right, it's a huge deal. If he's wrong, it's going to be a terrible thing.
billion bush dividends high hope pay plan range stocks
It's all about the Bush plan today. Any stocks that pay dividends are doing well today, particularly telecoms and utilities. But I hope that this is not a short-term solution. A range of $300 billion to $600 billion is pretty murky. We're going to have to hope that it comes in on the high end or there's going to be disappointment.
billion bit conditions giant observe outer provides rewriting textbooks time window
It provides for us a window 41/2 billion years back in time to observe the formation conditions of giant planets. This is a little bit about rewriting the textbooks about the outer planets. Alan Stern
billion company dollars earnings half impact income per relatively small strikes unique
It strikes me as being unique that a company can see half a billion dollars in income go away and see it as a relatively small impact on earnings per share.
billion closer federal funding government held perfect program projects satisfies threaten withhold
It's not perfect and should be closer to $2 billion, but the five-year program satisfies the federal government, which won't threaten to withhold $1.4 billion of federal transportation funding. Projects held up for years without funding will get done.
billion government point pounds spending view
It's not particularly substantial. Especially if you look at it from the point of view of the more than 450 billion pounds of government spending every year.
billion birds costs died dying good human million normal ready time
It's normal to do that and it's good to be ready should this happen. But for the time being we have 140 million birds killed or dying or have died because of avian influenza, with $10 billion of costs ... and it is still there (in Asia) that we are having contamination to human beings. Jacques Diouf
billions ceremony games olympic opening tv viewers
For billions of TV viewers around the world, the opening ceremony is also the 'first impression' that the Olympic Games have to offer.
billion china countries dollars foreign investors profits worth
Foreign investors in China remitted profits worth 250 billion US dollars to respective countries in the 1990-2004 period.
billion cut dollars pay percent raise
For each 1 percent pay raise it is about a $600 million, so a billion dollars won't cut the mustard. Ike Skelton
billion cut million pay percent
For each 1 percent pay raise, is about $600 million -- so $1 billion just won't cut the mustard.
billion federal income rate though
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits. Bernie Sanders
billion cut dollars gas greenhouse invest public save thousands
For every $1 billion we invest in public transportation, we create 30,000 jobs, save thousands of dollars a year for each commuter, and dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions.
billions collects company customer directly dollars economics financial indeed investors needs reflect reporting statements trouble
For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars of co-payments a customer makes directly to another company, the pharmacy, which the pharmacy collects and never remits to Merck, just does not reflect the economics of what is occurring, ... If that is what the SEC accepts, then investors are in trouble and our financial reporting indeed needs improving.
billion company
For a company doing about $19?$20 billion in sales, this is not a big float. Richard Hastings
billion federal five government less loans next otherwise spend student
The federal government will spend $12.7 billion less on student loans in the next five years than they would otherwise have done. It will be felt.
billion bridge canada cross crosses fast lane percent seven thousand trade travels trucks value
the fast lane for Canada-U.S. trade. Twenty-five percent of our two-way trade, or 120 billion U.S. dollars, travels the bridge; seven thousand trucks cross it every day. The value of the trade that crosses this bridge exceeds all of U.S. trade with Japan. Jean Chretien
billion cost exceeded farmers livelihood million
The cost to agriculture has exceeded US$10 billion (euro8.3 billion). The livelihood of around 300 million farmers has been affected.
billions cost people sending
The cost of identifying all those people and sending them back would be stupendous. It would be billions and billions of dollars, Michael Chertoff
billion certainly competing cost dollars gone strip
The cost of competing on the Strip has gone up. A billion dollars certainly doesn't get you a top-tier property.
billions dollars
I mean, all these billions of dollars they've made off of us, you know.
billion close needed projects realized remains room taking trend various whether within
They just realized that they just did not have the room within the budget. They needed close to $1 billion for various programs, and they just didn't have it without taking the projects out. But whether this is a trend or a one-year aberration remains to be seen.
billion bought companies comparing deal environment integrated quite room
They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them to a $27 billion deal in a different kind of competitive environment where a lot of things can go wrong, you have no room for error. ... You can't be a gunslinger.
billion cash flow generate good money operations retail service
The retail operations have to find a way to make money at some point, and if you've got a $1.7 billion in debt, then you've got to generate some pretty good cash flow to service that debt. John Chamberlain
billion calendar current line market per trading year yield
On calendar year 2000 revenues, this would yield a $387.9 billion market cap, or $70 per share. This is right in line with current trading levels.
billion likely people ride services sun
Not too many people know that STK does about $1 billion in IT services each year. Sun may likely get to ride their coattails.
billion good save
That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.
billion birds difficult enormous government health means monitor
That means about 10 billion birds and it is very difficult for the government to monitor their health status. It is an enormous challenge.
billion corn costs daunting depressed designed farm fuel input margins natural program puts shows spotlight thin works
That puts a spotlight on how thin margins are for farmers. Input costs keep increasing, especially for fuel and natural gas. Yet we have sub $2 (per bushel) corn prices. The $2 billion may be a daunting number, but it shows the farm program works in years of depressed farm prices. That's how it's designed to work. Philip Nelson