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Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers. Jeff Bingaman
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Toll roads are as popular as smallpox. Don't waste billions of dollars on I-69. Fix the roads we have. John Smith
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We give big tax cuts to the oil industry in this country even though they are making billions of dollars in profits.
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We are not sure just how much money we are going to get for this program this year because of all the billions needed for the Katrina recovery, Tom Holt
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Were up to our necks in deficit spending. Were piling up billions more in debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay,
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The $3-billion investment in four projects will employ thousands of people and generate billions of dollars of foreign exchange for Bangladesh.
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That would still leave Ottawa with billions of dollars to spend on roads and infrastructure. John Williamson
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The problem with foreign debt emerges as the most serious obstacle. We are indebted in billions of dollars, Ayad Allawi
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Well, Larry predicted that the software industry would consolidate, and through billions of dollars in his spending, he's managed to make his prediction come true, Bill Gates
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Ring tones will be a nice little revenue bump for carriers going forward but it's not as if there will be billions and billions of dollars in their pockets tomorrow, Michael King
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I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company - a service - that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc. Dick Costolo
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The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.
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A billion saved is a billion earned. Norman Ralph Augustine
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Every time we turn over a rock in the mutual fund industry these days, we are seeing vermin crawl out that are appalling: Late trading; timing by those in the executive boardroom; billions of dollars being scraped off that should be going into the pockets of investors instead ending up in the hands of the executives, Eliot Spitzer
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After any large loss event, the Bermudian reinsurance market always sees the inflow of billions of dollars of new capital.
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African-Americans are spending billions of dollars on cable and there's not very much in terms of content being transmitted back. Bob Johnson
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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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Federal, state and local governments spend billions of dollars each year educating, caring for and incarcerating illegal immigrants. Gary Miller
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SCE has borrowed billions of dollars, which threatens the company's solvency, through eight and a half months of inaction and delay by the CPUC, in order to continue to serve its customers, ... There was no reason for the CPUC to take this action, except for reasons of publicity. This decision undermines confidence in the fairness of the decision-making process at the CPUC.
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Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget. Mike Quigley
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Projects still require years to develop, cost billions of dollars to bring on stream and operate for decades.
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Private industry spends billions of dollars on this targeting. The companies think it works. Why wouldn't it work for politicians?
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probably be many billions of dollars. However, we cannot fathom the cost of these poor societies and the nameless fishermen and fishing villages that have just been wiped out. Jan Egeland
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Persistent inequality costs the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars a year, undermining our global competitiveness, our democracy, and our ideals as a nation. Wendy Kopp
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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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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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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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This could cost higher education billions of dollars. There is a question on where the funds would come from.
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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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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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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 standing outside Fort Knox with billions of dollars inside. The only problem is how are you going to get it out.