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David is uniquely qualified to head our new business, ... He has experience in launching successful start-ups, and in running multi-billion dollar businesses, just what we need to head a global venture that, on day one, will be a $10 billion company.
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David Higgins did not say there was a two billion overrun. This is not what he said and he did not mention a figure. Sebastian Coe
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Dark energy is causing yet another current growth spurt. Fortunately, it is more gentle than the one 13.7 billion years ago.
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DaimlerChrysler has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cell technology. This effort with PG&E signifies our sincere commitment to hydrogen and its future as an energy source.
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Does Hillary Clinton really want to talk about health care? The American people were pretty clear in rejecting a program that would have cost hard-working taxpayers billions of dollars.
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Connecticut would not be Connecticut if we cut $3.5 billion out of the budget. We are a strong, generous, hopeful people. We'd be taking $800 million out of education. You can't do that in this state. Dannel Malloy
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Congress was more concerned about constituents waking up in the morning sometime in 2009 and finding out that their televisions didn't work, and they couldn't get the sports show that they wanted. They were more concerned about that than they were about reducing the deficit or keeping taxes low or saving billions of dollars for the taxpayers.
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Congress must enact the windfall profits tax without delay, ... It will be money well spent. Unlike the billions of dollars that we ship to foreign countries to pay for foreign oil, these funds will be paid by Americans to Americans. Jimmy Carter
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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
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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
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That's over 3 billion more pounds of meat. Exports are likely to go up only 600 million pounds this year.
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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.
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That's a good feeling, to save your clients two billion dollars.
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That means about 10 billion birds and it is very difficult for the government to monitor their health status. It is an enormous challenge.
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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
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It's much weaker, but the size of the storm tends to grow. Even a category 3 could cause $25 billion in damage.
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That is probably the key factor in support of any tax measure, whether we have that $35 billion locked in or not, Tom Daschle
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It's ironic: A year ago people were questioning whether it would exist, and now five of the largest media tech companies in the world are speculated to be interested in buying a piece of it for multiple billion dollars.
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It's clear that their proposal is going to be vetoed and we end up with nothing, ... The American people don't want us to do nothing but they would like us to do something that's reasonable and I suggest about a $500 billion tax cut over 10 years. John Breaux
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Its cargo was an ancient, cosmic treasure from the very edge of the solar system ? a treasure that formed when the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago.
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It's been less than successful, bordering on a disaster. After the $3 billion write-off they took for the poor performance of the previous management team, this summer must be a real disappointment to them.
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It's a matter of pride to know that this will be Italy's stage when two billion people watch the opening ceremony.
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It's a matter of pride to know that this will be Italy's stage when 2 billion people watch the opening ceremony.
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It's virtually impossible for most sites to do a billion page views in a month or even a year. Ross Levinsohn
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It took us 23 years to reach the first billion dollars in revenues while we reached the next billion dollars in 23 months. Nandan Nilekani
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It will cost billions to fix it, but unfortunately for environmentalists, it's not a very sexy problem.
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It will take billions of dollars to rebuild ... To reconstruct this will take five to 10 years, Jan Egeland
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The world needs $10 billion a year to treat those with HIV in the poor nations, to make sure that the number of new infections is going down dramatically, and to take care of orphans, Peter Piot
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The use of wireless telecommunications services in the United States generated a consumer surplus of $157 billion per annum in 2004. Were U.S. carriers to charge at European Union levels, we estimate that the U.S. consumer surplus from wireless services would be halved, demonstrating that U.S. consumers and businesses enjoy substantially greater economical welfare from wireless services than their EU counterparts do.
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They are using every stall tactic they can to postpone a ruling. I think MasterCard wants to delay the lawsuits because it could cause problems for their planned $2.5 billion IPO.
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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.
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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.