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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. Susan Collins
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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." ()
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This is the first day of the month, you may have seen some end-of-the-month portfolio selling dissipating, ... And this is the day that Microsoft is distributing $33 billion in cash, so there is some anticipation of that finding its way back to the market. Larry Wachtel
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This is not a two-thirds cut. We had to restructure the entire system because of the magnitude of the project. This is a $2.2 billion facility. The Navajo Nation never contemplated a project this size.
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Are you talking tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars? Give us a ballpark, Wolf Blitzer
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Ever since Mike Tyson was champ, twenty-something dudes have microwaved nachos, popped opened Natty Lights, watched sharks do unspeakable things on TV, and whispered a billion 'Whoa, dudes.'
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Drivers already pay roughly $30 billion a year in federal gasoline taxes; that ought to be enough to at least give them a decent federal Interstate highway system with maintenance costs.
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Each and every year, the United States loses an estimated $100 billion a year in tax revenues due to offshore tax abuses by the wealthy and large corporations. Bernie Sanders
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Ericsson will report a loss of $1.8 billion and Nokia a profit of $1 billion.
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Ericsson was the first to make a major announcement a few years back, ... More recently, we saw Nortel, and that was followed by Lucent's announcement a few weeks ago, which will probably ultimately end up at about $10 billion being outsourced there. And now we have Motorola making a major announcement for outsourcing.
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Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
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Even if somehow the company captured 10 percent of the market this year -- which would be an enormous feat -- it would still only be a $30 million business. The company will sell over $1 billion in CDs this year in its stores. Why is it doing this? It doesn't make sense.
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Florida residents reap many rewards from the $57 billion that visitors spend here annually and the $3.4 billion in tax revenues in 2005 that resulted from their spending.
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Federal, state and local governments spend billions of dollars each year educating, caring for and incarcerating illegal immigrants. Gary Miller
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Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year. Dick Thornburgh
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Feeder-calf prices could hold in the mid-$90s at the lows if exports are back to 2.5 billion lbs. and corn prices remain in check. If exports fail to grow, prices will trend lower.
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As the residential market shows signs of softening, the nonresidential market is in excellent position to pick up the slack in construction activity. Nonresidential construction not only represents billions of dollars in economic activity, but also generates a lot of related spending in furnishings and interior decor.
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A trend yield near 150 bushels, then, would produce a 2006 crop of 10.92 billion bushels.
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At that time we have to mail out 6.8 billion dollars to the various shareholders.
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At $7 billion annually, video games are larger than the film industry. Technologies like simulations used by the military are a booming area.
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At the top line, we are forecasting revenues in the range of $32.2 to $32.6 billion for the full year.
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Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners. Jeff Goodell
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Do they think that the current defense budget will sustain Northrop Grumman as a viable competitor over the next 10 years? An $8 billion company cannot survive in a world of $40 billion companies.
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Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars of damage that happened over the past few years happened at winds speeds a lot lower than we think they are.
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Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars in insured losses from the last few years are due to wind speeds lower than we thought they were.
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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.