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The cost of identifying all those people and sending them back would be stupendous. It would be billions and billions of dollars, Michael Chertoff
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I mean, all these billions of dollars they've made off of us, you know.
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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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Disparity is Australia's worst social problem. Thousands of lives are slowly being crushed, while billions are wasted on thousands of little initiatives trying to 'close the gap.' Andrew Forrest
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Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely on speech recognition not just to handle requests for information but to process customer orders. Alex Berenson
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The Koch brothers, through the expenditure of billions of dollars and the creation and support of dozens of extreme right organizations, have taken fringe extremist ideas and made them mainstream within the Republican Party. Bernie Sanders
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While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system.
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Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack. Bjorn Lomborg
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The bottom line is, like, one in five stars has at least one planet where life might spring up. That's a fantastically large percentage. That means in our galaxy, there's on the order of tens of billions of Earth-like worlds. Seth Shostak
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The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.
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The president often says it is the responsibility of elected officials here in Washington to face today's challenges and not to pass them on to future generations. Yet it is his runaway budget and trade deficits, billions spent on tax giveaways, backwards-looking energy plan designed by and for special interests, and inaction during this country's health-care crisis that have created a myriad of problems for our children's generation. Harry Reid
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But now a memo forecasts administration plans for billions of dollars of cuts to America's veterans, schools, health care, homeland defense, worker-training programs and medical research, Tom Daschle
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Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.
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Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away. Muhammad Yunus
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When you get thousands, or millions or billions of them together in one spot, it is a fantastic, deafening chorus.
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We're trying to help the Harper government deliver on its commitment to cut spending. There are billions of dollars to be saved. Elizabeth May
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We want to enable the billions of media consumers to become producers, ... And clearly, Yahoo is poised as a company to make significant changes in the world of social media.
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Twenty-five years ago, your trains broke down all the time, they were covered in graffiti and you had no incentive to use transit. Billions of dollars later, your trains are reliable and you get discounts the more you use the system. The lesson of all this is, if you invest in transit, the riders will come.
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You may be able to collect, read and digest billions of reference about aliens and UFOs. Then you will find that most of them were claimed as hoax, others vice versa. Eventually, there is only one thing you want to do about it...the close encounter.
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When you open up the borders, pump in billions from outside and lift international sanctions, it's going to generate growth.
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After any large loss event, the Bermudian reinsurance market always sees the inflow of billions of dollars of new capital.
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Delays in rebuilding international good will are costing Americans lives in Iraq, and billions of dollars to the American taxpayers. Sheila Lee
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It would take billions and billions of dollars to do it,
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These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives, who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars,
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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 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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American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a result, they have developed a strongly pro-Azerbaijan position. Stephen Kinzer
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Also, there are economic studies which show that Europe has a trade deficit in software versus the U.S. in the tens of billions of dollars per year, so there is obviously some hope over here to become a little more independent from a few large and mostly American vendors.
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This is a significant problem that is endangering Americans and costing us billions and billions of dollars. Parris Glendening
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This is a scandal, ... This is only the tip of the iceberg. ... We're talking about billions of dollars.