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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee. Carl Paladino
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Our goal of course is to ultimately produce one billion gallons of bio diesel and ethanol by the year 2008.
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Over the last 12 quarters, we've been between $4 billion and $6 billion each quarter and in (the third quarter) we're effectively right in the middle of that band.
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Paper costs money...you do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand that up to $3 billion in savings are possible. Giovanni Bisignani
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That facility, when it is fully built out is going to take $1.5 billion in investments, and the lion's share of that is going to happen this year.
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Mark Warner has a history of flip-flopping on taxes. Despite a campaign promise not to raise taxes, while governor of Virginia he supported raising billions of dollars in taxes time and time again.
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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
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We'll spend that one billion euros for mad cow disease, but that's all, because there's no more money left.
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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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Will it decrease fraud to zero? No. But if we reduce it to 50 percent, it could save $10 billion to $15 billion.
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Will it be enough for everyone? It's not clear, but $2.5 billion is better than $1 billion, especially if they move quickly with the second half.
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While the Bush administration is prepared to spend $100 billion to rid Iraq of WMD, it has been unwilling to spend more than 0.2% of that sum... this year on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Jeffrey Sachs
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We realized we can't spend a billion dollars and do this ourselves.
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We've got to have the $4.2 billion to make it work, but if we wait until we have it we'll be criticized that we are delaying the process. We want people to feel comfortable that the money is going to be there for them and to see that the wheels of the process are going forward.
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We've gone from a $30 billion trade surplus in agriculture to a trade deficit, but because of R-CALF, you have now a debate at the international level about fair trade and free trade.
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With more than $1 billion of proposed investment, Forest City and Harrah's have the strongest and most comprehensive development plan and the potential for the most tax revenues.
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We think by the time the senior citizen population learns about this bill, the fact that there is no cost containment and the $300 billion that the seniors will receive over the next ten years will actually probably be dissipated in higher drug costs, and the fact that ultimately this will lead to the privatization of Medicare will undoubtedly create a situation where seniors will be very unhappy.
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We think, at the end of the day, it will not be about the campaign money but instead the $1.3 billion in tax increases Bauer has ruled out of order, and his many other accomplishments.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, human consciousness has not been around very long. A little light just went on after four and a half billion years. How often does that happen? Maybe it is quite rare. Elon Musk
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Basically, the intersection between the animal world and the plant world is where life regenerates itself over and over, billions of times each day. It's the foundation of life on our planet. Louie Schwartzberg
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We want the damages order to reflect the value of the music that was distributed. We don't yet have a figure, but we expect it to be in the order of several billion dollars.
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We are hopeful of earning US$ 4.0 billion by the end of the current financial year.
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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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The people moving in to Cook County every year make $1.2 billion less than those moving out. Kenneth Johnson
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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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There are easily storm scenarios in New York that run to tens of billions of dollars. And structures on Long Island aren't as well built as new construction in Florida.
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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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We really focus on how we drive the entire year. We've increased our guidance overall for our fiscal year '05 from $1.27 billion to $1.31 billion.
billion drive entire fiscal focus guidance increased overall year
We really focus on how we drive the entire year, ... We've increased our guidance overall for our fiscal year '05 from $1.27 billion to $1.31 billion.
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We really expect the mission to be transformational. This is the capstone of the original visits to the planets. It takes us 4 billion miles away and 4 billion years back in time. Alan Stern
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We're $5 billion or $6 billion short of getting people trained to a level that would make me comfortable. Bob Kerrey