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billion community control cost economic experience higher measures past potential support
We know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses. Kofi Annan
billion chinese life people remember
The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious. Jiang Zemin
billion increase mp3 percent players sales sold video
We are projecting an increase in sales of MP3 players to $4.5 billion in 2006, with 30 percent of all MP3 players sold having video playback capability. Sean Wargo
billion gas prepared supply
We are prepared to supply 30-40 billion cu m of gas to China.
billion bit china countries global happens increases nobody original population projection seems situations studied took total
We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening.
billions businesses pay state taxes
There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.
billion cash flow interested next phase seeing sit stardust together watching
We're interested in watching the next phase of high-rise condos going up, and we're interested in seeing how the Stardust comes together with their new $4 billion product. We have cash flow we can sit on while we're watching the market.
billion imagined incredibly inhabited virtual
We're incredibly excited to welcome the 500 millionth Poptropican into our virtual world. When we started in 2007, we never could have imagined that we'd see a day when half a billion avatars inhabited Poptropica. Jeff Kinney
billion octopus split
We split from our common ancestor with the octopus half a billion years ago. And yet, you can make friends with an octopus. Sy Montgomery
book writing long
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know. Charles de Lint
book writing want
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
book writing seven
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
book writing differences
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.
book night cities
I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
book biblical world
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. Charles Dickens
book beer words-of-wisdom
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
business digital retail
The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network. Charles Dunstone
business fall character
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. Charles de Gaulle
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
fetch means people stream
I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
fetch horses morning
I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields. Meg Rosoff
fetch pathos poignancy work
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required. Michel Faber
fetch meant tuesday
Then, on Tuesday night, we were told that we could fetch our passports. It meant we could get back home.
fetch pat throw
Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it. Joel Edgerton
fetch mother obey thy unto
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
fetch
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale Edward Coke
fetch saws embarrassed
I was very embarrassed when my canvases began to fetch high prices. I saw myself condemned to a future of nothing but Masterpieces. Henri Matisse
percentage prison since
The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985 Serj Tankian
percentage population proportion
The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.
percent possible preparing
We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.
percent relative
We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees. Don Davis
percent
When you think about it, 'Siskel and Ebert' is reachable by 95 percent of televisions in U.S., Scott Smith
percent unless until wait
We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday. Ken Hitchcock
percent
We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.
percent safe sure tells until
Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,
percent reach whether year
Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.
value
We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.
values
When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently. Demi Lovato
values
Nobody values your time but YOU. Brian Tracy
values
We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.
value
(It is) an acquisition which we would value as 'not really expensive.
value
I think there's a lot of value there.
values
have the same values and the same interests.
value
It has always been about value and convenience.
value
That was only some coolers, so the value was pretty minimal. That has to be done over again.