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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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The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies. Annalee Newitz
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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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This distinction is a reflection of our continued achievements, which, this year, include $9.44 billion in revenue, $842.4 million in income, the delivery of 37,140 homes and a $6.77 billion in backlog. Bruce Karatz
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This is a $300 billion issue. We have a duty. Gordon Brown
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Americans spent 6 billion hours last year complying with the tax code.
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Americans spend more than $350 billion in out-of-pocket medical expenses each year. One of the ways we can help is to equip consumers with tools that enable them to easily navigate through their health care information and decide what's right for them.
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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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American consumers spent nearly $10 billion more last week on energy than they did in the same week three years ago. That's not sustainable.
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American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious. Caroline Knapp
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American businesses are likely to spend at least $50 billion fixing Y2K computer glitches, Jim Talent
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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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Already, some $2 billion per day is being spent on the recovery efforts. We simply cannot wait for existing structures to organize and ramp up or create a whole new bureaucracy that will take many months to get up and running. We need controls that are visible and on the ground as soon as possible, Susan Collins
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They only lost $3 million. This is a company that does a billion dollars' worth of business every year.
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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.
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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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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. Harry Reid
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This is another example of Democrats playing politics with numbers. From our perspective, user fees are more appropriate than the $1.4 billion tax increase that the Democrats proposed." ()
billion monopoly unlimited worry
They have a $40 billion monopoly with unlimited resources. I'll never not worry about them.
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They'd inherit $500 billion and obviously have to go in with a fire ax,
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They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective. Marion Nestle
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You don't spend that much money just for a customer base. If they discontinue the product, they're going to lose those customers anyway, because they won't be happy. So that means they would have spent billions for nothing.
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You can't just in the name of compassion blindly throw billions of dollars at a problem when a relatively small percentage will actually get to the victims.
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This plan will literally save taxpayers billions of dollars. John Faso