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This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner. John Spratt
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We fully understand the principles of supply and demand. But it is difficult to see this as anything other than a $14 billion cash grab by the oil industry that is pouring salt into the wounds of a global crisis. Giovanni Bisignani
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We have a 140 billion gallon gasoline market.
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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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Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. Bill Delahunt
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Twenty percent is significantly faster than we expected for the overall market, and 20 percent growth for a $32 billion company is relatively unprecedented. Michael Dell
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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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You can imagine the extraordinary force that a billion gallons of water has coming over these levees, ... It happened on a seven-mile stretch simultaneously.
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When you plan for $3 billion in sales and you do $2.4 billion, you have a cost problem, John Todd
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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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You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation. Eike Batista
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We've had real good corn sales this past month and export inspections are averaging what we need to reach the USDA goal of 1.85 billion bushel estimate for the year.
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We've had our first test and we've failed miserably. We have spent billions of dollars in revenues to try to make our country safe and we have not made nearly enough progress.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV. Warren Farrell
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It would be better to do nothing and pay down $100 billion of our national debt than to sign a large and irresponsible tax cut that would signal to the world that the era of fiscal discipline in the United States is over, ... Meet The Press. Gene Sperling
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It would take billions and billions of dollars to do it, Michael Chertoff
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The Second Green Revolution, as the world's population grows to over 9 billion by 2050, is the new revolution we have to have to lift food production by another 75 percent.
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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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These projects and plans, representing nearly $1 billion in investment in Alberta's power grid are critical steps the AESO is taking towards enhancing reliability and building a robust transmission system that supports the continued economic success of the province.
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The states have a total of $80 billion in deficit spending. What are they going to have to do? Well, they are either going to have to cut programs, which will drag the economy down, or they are going to have to raise taxes, which will drag the economy down. Charles Schumer
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is kind of (the oil companies') good luck. They didn't do anything to earn it. And we're sitting here with a $150 billion bill from Katrina.
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Is it $15 billion because of the collapse of the business-to-consumer market or it is $15 billion because sales growth slowed down by 50 percent in the last two quarters? Probably, it's a little bit of both, but I think it's more of the latter.
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It would have a multi-billion dollar impact. $10 billion is not an unreasonable number.
billion pet spends
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food. Nicholas D. Kristof
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The violation of intellectual property rights costs U.S. businesses $250 billion a year, and costs our economy about 750,000 jobs lost (to overseas competitors),
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The season has come for Americans to look homeward ... instead of continuing to spend billions of dollars in Iraq , Robert Byrd
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There will be relatively few shares sold, ... And UPS still has $1 billion left over from the IPO to repurchase shares on the open market to support the price if need be.
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The same folks who today defend high gasoline prices as the product of a free market said exactly the same thing about energy prices in the West when we now know ... Enron was manipulating the market at full throttle and reaping billions in profits. Byron Dorgan
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When all the numbers are counted, consumers could have given retailers an early holiday present, ... Last year Black Friday spending on our cards totaled $3.6 billion. We could cross $4 billion this year.
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We went from one million to 20 million subscribers in the past five years. That's great, but a billion people watch CNN. Steve Case
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We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales. Sandra Tsing Loh
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The private sector really is who we turn to put on the games, so we will have to generate about $1.7 billion from the private sector. We've got off to a great start.