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The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there. Sam Altman
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This could cost higher education billions of dollars. There is a question on where the funds would come from.
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The mobile phone is the most popular digital device on the planet (1.7 billion users - about one quarter of the world's population - and counting),
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The mobile industry is scrambling to meet the demand for innovative new content applications and services, but billions are being lost through revenue leakage.
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You're talking about $4.7 billion spent on Plan Colombia, and this is all we have to show for it?
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You're standing outside Fort Knox with billions of dollars inside. The only problem is how are you going to get it out.
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You would think four years after 9/11 with billions of dollars spent to improve our emergency preparedness that the response to Katrina would be far crisper, far better coordinated and not marred by failures at all levels of government. Susan Collins
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You would think four years after 9-11, with billions of dollars spent to improve our emergency preparedness, that the response to Katrina would be far crisper, far better coordinated and not marred by failures at all levels of government.
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You're dealing with an exceedingly wealthy industry. If you hit them with a verdict of few million dollars, they could probably take that out of small change, ... The point of a punitive damage verdict is to punish the company for its wrongdoing. $3 billion (would) punish it.
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Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet. Louie Schwartzberg
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Since Sunrun introduced solar as a service in 2007, it has become the preferred way for consumers to go solar in the nation's top solar markets. Sunrun has deployed more than $2 billion in solar systems and has raised more than $300 million in equity capital.
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What the Mars orbital camera has revealed from this long and detailed study of the Red Planet is a dynamic Mars, a planet that can change not on the mind-boggling millions and billions of years, but on the order of years and decades.
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Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
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Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness. Tim Bray
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The world has 6 billion people and counting. We need to help 500 million people become better leaders so that billions can benefit. John P. Kotter
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We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people. Seth Shostak
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We have resources to do $200 billion in contracts, but we are spending $400 billion in contracts.
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Do they think that the current defense budget will sustain Northrop Grumman as a viable competitor over the next 10 years? An $8 billion company cannot survive in a world of $40 billion companies.
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Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars of damage that happened over the past few years happened at winds speeds a lot lower than we think they are.
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Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars in insured losses from the last few years are due to wind speeds lower than we thought they were.
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Currently, there are only a handful of large private sector companies operating in the $300 billion worldwide water market, and there are tremendous opportunities for future growth as the water industry moves toward privatization and consolidation. Kenneth Lay
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Credit card companies are really looking hard at this industry. It's been $30 billion in cash sales, but they want to see that $30 billion in credit.
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Cruise and containers can happily coexist. The container port is a vibrant and essential component of Brooklyn's varied waterfront. By bringing both aesthetics and billions of dollars in economic activity, it provides Brooklyn with a worthwhile use for her storied piers, and brings much-needed wealth to our local economy.
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Are you talking tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars? Give us a ballpark, Wolf Blitzer
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Ever since Mike Tyson was champ, twenty-something dudes have microwaved nachos, popped opened Natty Lights, watched sharks do unspeakable things on TV, and whispered a billion 'Whoa, dudes.'
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Drivers already pay roughly $30 billion a year in federal gasoline taxes; that ought to be enough to at least give them a decent federal Interstate highway system with maintenance costs.
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Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations. Bernie Sanders
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Ericsson will report a loss of $1.8 billion and Nokia a profit of $1 billion.
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Ericsson was the first to make a major announcement a few years back, ... More recently, we saw Nortel, and that was followed by Lucent's announcement a few weeks ago, which will probably ultimately end up at about $10 billion being outsourced there. And now we have Motorola making a major announcement for outsourcing.
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Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
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Even if somehow the company captured 10 percent of the market this year -- which would be an enormous feat -- it would still only be a $30 million business. The company will sell over $1 billion in CDs this year in its stores. Why is it doing this? It doesn't make sense.
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Florida residents reap many rewards from the $57 billion that visitors spend here annually and the $3.4 billion in tax revenues in 2005 that resulted from their spending.
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We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.