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billion committed foreign fully merely proud stand
I am proud to say that fully committed foreign aid, not merely pledges, now stand at 6.5 billion dollars,
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Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there. Douglas R. Oberhelman
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Cargo theft is a major crime problem throughout the nation, with some estimates of losses ranging up to $10 billion a year,
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Ceres is an embryonic planet. Gravitational perturbations from Jupiter billions of years ago prevented Ceres from accreting more material to become a full-fledged planet.
billions embryonic jupiter material
Ceres is an embryonic planet, ... Gravitational perturbations from Jupiter billions of years ago prevented Ceres from accreting more material to become a full-fledged planet.
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But they paid $2.4 billion to get that,
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But the tone is entirely constructive. No one thought the $4.3 billion increase is a figure to be sneezed at. Alan Bersin
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But the $1 billion (investment) doesn't happen without the stadium piece of it. The stadium is the anchor.
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Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.
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Business of $15 billion to $20 billion in the next three-to-four years is not an unreasonable number to expect at all, depending on how aggressively the new Iraqi government wants to exploit its oil resources.
billion orders package reached
The package of orders has reached $18 billion as of today.
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The pace of innovation is accelerating, as three billion consumers enter the global marketplace. We are privileged to invest this fund in these exciting times. Entrepreneurs will make major improvements in health care, including in personalized medicine, medical devices and therapeutics.
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There is an element to that. The AOL-Time Warner deal must go through; it's $200 billion (in terms of the combined company's market value), whereas the EMI deal is a $20 billion joint venture. Paul Richards
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I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it. James Wolfensohn
billion itself managers managing people time
The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time. Tony Buzan
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It's easy to reckon that the oomph to hurl even a Smart Car-size spacecraft to another star at, say, 20 percent the speed of light (and land it when it arrives) is the energy contained in 50 billion gallons of gasoline. The tank's not big enough. Seth Shostak
billions creatures dependent ebb exist life raised tides
Even if the Moon didn't exist - even if it had been vaporized billions of years ago by cantankerous Klingons - there would still be (somewhat lower) tides raised by the Sun. For creatures dependent on the oceans' ebb and flow, life could go on.
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Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.
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Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people. Drew Houston
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Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. Muhammad Yunus
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Kmart is generating well over $500 million a year in cash flow. They have over $2 billion in cash. That, combined with their real estate value, should provide higher support for the stock.
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Kids are very savvy about the technology. But I'm not sure they totally understand the implications of a billion people being able to see them doing whatever is posted. Don Tapscott
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The fact that he comes from Kraft and ran a $6 billion operation, and he's now willing to take on this challenge, is a positive sign. It's also a positive the board has come to the conclusion the restructuring guys have completed what needs to be done and the company is ready to move forward. John Owen
billion cow disease mad money spend
We'll spend that one billion euros for mad cow disease, but that's all, because there's no more money left.
billion civil food good poorest societies suffer worst
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments. Hans Rosling
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When it comes to fossil fuels, we're going to find more here and use less. Over time, we're going to become energy independent. I am tired of sending $300 billion overseas to buy oil from people who hate our guts. The choice between a weak economy and a strong environment is a false choice, that is not the choice I'll offer America. Lindsey Graham
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That's the Republicans' hole card. Bringing home a couple billion for the labs.
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I would not be surprised to see J&J come back. They've got $16 billion in cash at the end of 2005. They have tremendous financial resources. It's up to them.
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If the government builds up necessary infrastructure and exempt some duties, we will earn US$ 1.0 billion in the next few years. Tipu Sultan
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We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.
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We certainly acknowledge there have been some problems. This is a $30-$40 billion program. It's a big transition for many people. Gary Karr
billion spend
We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to, Andrew Natsios
billion build companies declines demand growth inventory per quarter rate second third
We had unintentional inventory declines in the second and third quarters, which is what you would typically get in a recession. I think companies will need to build $50 billion per quarter in inventories, even if the demand growth rate is just 3.5 percent.