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For a company such as Merck to reflect as revenues in its financial statements billions of dollars of co-payments a customer makes directly to another company, the pharmacy, which the pharmacy collects and never remits to Merck, just does not reflect the economics of what is occurring, ... If that is what the SEC accepts, then investors are in trouble and our financial reporting indeed needs improving.
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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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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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Something's got to be replenishing these metals. The suggestion is maybe this white dwarf had planets around it, and the system was substantial enough that after billions of years of grinding, there's still enough material to feed the dust disc around the white dwarf.
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Something's got to be replenishing these metals, ... The suggestion is maybe this white dwarf had planets around it, and the system was substantial enough that after billions of years of grinding, there's still enough material to feed the dust disc around the white dwarf.
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Delays in rebuilding international good will are costing Americans lives in Iraq, and billions of dollars to the American taxpayers. Sheila Lee
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There's billions of dollars on the table in Coyote Valley. Chuck D.
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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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This could cost higher education billions of dollars. There is a question on where the funds would come from.
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For billions of TV viewers around the world, the opening ceremony is also the 'first impression' that the Olympic Games have to offer.
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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.