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It's as big a scandal, for example, as the voluntary severance packages in schools which stripped education of so many skills and experience at the cost of billions of rands, and the schools system hasn't recovered. Helen Zille
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It's going to cost billions and take five to 10 years. But do we want to get a grip on this or not? I think we do. Tamar Jacoby
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It's going to take billions of dollars, but I want to make sure that money is not wasted. Susan Collins
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The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and the billions of petrol explosions in the engine blocks of trucks and cars seem to churn up the molecules of life and heaven so violently that the beautiful fogs are unable to hold together like they once did. Michael Leunig
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This legislation will ensure that Texas is at the forefront of the telecommunications industry, bringing thousands of new jobs and billions of economic investment to our state.
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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.
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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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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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If you as legacy carrier are losing billions of dollars and your partner is making hundreds of millions of dollars obviously there's a disconnect that needs to be addressed.
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Instead of money being spent on infrastructure projects, it has been spent propping up the pension system to the tune of billions of marks.
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The key thing is materiality. When it gets up into billions it is material,
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The cost of identifying all those people and sending them back would be stupendous. It would be billions and billions of dollars, Michael Chertoff
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I mean, all these billions of dollars they've made off of us, you know.
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If Medicare could negotiate directly with drug companies it could save the federal and state governments hundred of billions of dollars and cut insurance premiums.
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I'll tell you where my constituents are. They want to know why we spend billions of dollars on Star Wars defense, and yet we don't have the security to guarantee that there's not going to be a nuclear device in a cargo container that comes to the Port of Seattle. Maria Cantwell
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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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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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We spend billions of dollars on projects with very little merit that serve primarily local interests.
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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 global economy is giving more of our own people, and billions around the world, the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity. Bill Clinton
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The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later.
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The first 25 years of the tech era was to bring digital technologies to businesses and millions of personal computers. The next 25 years will be focused on bringing digital technologies to billions of consumer devices. Tim Bajarin
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The hairs on the back of my neck stick up with the thought of playing here, and then zooming off mid-week to play in China or Korea in a Champions League match, getting exposure to billions of people. From a commercial perspective, for sponsors and backers, the potential there is quite massive. Gary Cole
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You've got large companies making billions and billions a year in profits. Having to come up with $27.5 million is nothing to them.
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The damage to Grenada from Hurricane Ivan was easily in the billions of dollars - several times more than the country's Gross Domestic Product. Charles Rangel
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You can save billions of dollars in energy worldwide every year by using light instead of wasting it,
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I fear that a storm which could have cost tens of billions of dollars may cost more than 100 billion to repair. A storm that could have cost us hundreds of lives will probably cost us thousands of lives.
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It's better for the environment, we get to keep billions of dollars cycling through our economy instead of going to countries that aren't particularly friendly to us and by the way, it's cheaper,
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It's absurd, ... on the order of billions if not trillions to one. It's crazy.