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Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.
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Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports. Manmohan Singh
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Life is very good. We've been blessed. It was a one in a billion chance of this happening to us and we were lucky that it did.
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Let's be direct here. 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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Make no mistake, this $10.5 billion is initial relief, Tom DeLay
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Let's realize how far this governor has come and give credit where credit's due. The governor has taken the deficit from $16 billion down to $4 billion and that's a tremendous accomplishment.
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Let these people get their education. Don't criminalize them. They pay taxes, and they contribute billions to the economy.
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Lower withdrawals than most estimates -- at 20 billion cubic feet -- are bearish for gas, but the concern about the Nigerian supply of crude and the reaction to the Iranian situation could result in crude giving gas some support. James Williams
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SDL is a component supplier. They supply a lot of materials to Nortel Networks and they're a nice story in the optical fiber equipment, ... ... optical fiber investments will raise from 3 billion in 1999 to approximately 15 billion in 2003. Globally the demand is going to be $40 billion for year 2003. And these are the people who are going to supply all the equipment.
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Software as a service is something Microsoft wanted to pretend wasn't ever going to happen. The problem they have is that customers want it. Now more and more of the Microsoft franchise is being encroached upon, and not by a bunch of pimply kids like it was in the early Internet days, but by a company with a $100 billion market cap. Bruce Richardson
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Mr. President, we will make your spending request for school construction, we will increase funding for school construction $1.3 billion ... but we want that money to go directly to the school districts that will use it, Dennis Hastert
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Moving the needle on a $300 billion retailer takes time.
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Most website developers say an aggregator website, such as what healthcare.gov is, could be built easily for a half a million dollars. They have spent a half a billion dollars. Marsha Blackburn
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My initial call when this was reported as a possible $30 billion deal was, 'That is a nice number, but if they are serious they will have to start at 40 and if there are competitors that number will have a 5 in front of it,' ... I think it's a real, on-the-table offer.
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One septic system from one household into a 3.5 billion gallon reservoir would not create any kind of hazard to the reservoir itself or the drinking water source.
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One billion dollars is certainly a big investment, but what's good about it is that it's comprehensive; they have infrastructure, PC and education.
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No one's building a light water reactor. These are rather expensive things, I mean we're talking talking billions of dollars. So that's not happening,
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Online dating in the U.S. continues to grow. This is a half billion dollar industry and it is an industry that is still growing.
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More than one billion people around the world suffer from neurological conditions and diseases, and finding new, more effective treatments for patients is a high priority for Pfizer research and development.
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My guess the strike will reduce profits by well over a billion dollars. David Healy
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No other president in the history of the nation has requested such strong support for our nation's school children, And the $53.1 billion is $11 billion more that what the president found when he took office just a few years ago, Rod Paige
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Now to pay them off, we estimated at worse to be $1 billion to $1.2 billion.
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Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare. Louie Gohmert
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Nuclear is an option we need to give serious consideration. We're a couple of years away from saying, 'Yes, we'll spend $1 billion or more to build a nuclear power plant.' But we've reached the point where we need to take certain steps so we can maintain the nuclear option.
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New drugs are not going to build billion dollar sales in a few weeks. It takes years to do that.
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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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For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, 'Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I've earned slightly more wealth.' I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars. Dustin Moskovitz
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I can tell you that reducing the work force by 11 percent, removing $4 billion of ongoing costs from the system and coming up with a new business model to me seems pretty competitive.
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If Oracle did $1.2 billion in licenses and reports earnings of 15 cents a share, the stock will rip on that,
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Given the declining trend in net foreign purchases of the past five months, we doubt whether these would be sufficient in covering the $55.8 billion trade deficit, ... In that case, markets should expect intensifying damage for the dollar.
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Give consideration to the fact that alien astronomers could have scrutinized Earth for more than 4 billion years without detecting any radio signals, despite the fact that our world is the poster child for habitability.
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Freight and passenger traffic are forecast to grow in the 5 to 6 per cent range during the year but the industry is projected to record another loss of over US$4 billion for 2006. Giovanni Bisignani