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I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.

If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.

In 2004, Warner-Lambert, a division of Pfizer Inc., pled guilty to two felonies and agreed to pay $430 million for fraudulently promoting the drug Neurontin.

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.

Mountains aren't eternal: even the most imposing massifs are smoothed away by weathering in a few hundred million years or less. Plate tectonics makes new ones, and without it, our future would be flat.

I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm doing and I think, 'God, I've never seen anything like that before!' And that's a real thrill.

The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

The other thing I heard from people a lot was that they were amazed that $212 million had gone through those machines than the fact that the state got so little. People were amazed at the amount of money that could have gone into the economy.

The post office is able to measure at least $200 million in mail fraud per year. Anything they can do to prevent that only helps them.

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

The possibility of you being able to successfully launder 50 million pounds in Britain is fairly minimal unless you literally break it up into trenches of 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 or something like that.

The persistent, toxic chemicals we identified in this study are important, heavily used industrial substances, some of which are produced in quantities up to 500 million pounds a year. At the very least, Americans have a right to know if companies are releasing these pollutants into their communities. In fact, we should have begun tracking these pollutants years ago. Instead of curbing reports on the most worrisome pollutants to please industry, the Bush Administration should be expanding the tracking system to inform and protect the public.

Until about 20 (laps) to go, and then everybody is going to be racing for that million and a half dollars.

We are pleased with the financial performance and operational improvements that are demonstrated by our first quarter financial results, ... Our eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and net earnings in the quarter of $2.8 million reflect a continuation of the momentum that was generated last fiscal year and put the company on pace to achieving our annual guidance.

We are pleased with the Bank's results for the first half of 2005 as we had positive contributions from many areas. Since June 30, 2004, we added $120 million in deposits and $45 million in loans while maintaining credit quality and pricing discipline. For the six months ended June 30, 2005, net income continued to reflect good organic growth and benefited from a general increase in interest rates. In the first quarter of 2005, the bank raised its per-share dividend 5.89% from $17 per-share to $18 per share. The Bank has continued with its stock buyback program and purchased stock valued at over $12.2 million during the six month period ended June 30, 2005.

We are pleased with our fourth quarter results which, we believe, again demonstrate the Firm's operating leverage and our ability to improve pricing as demonstrated by another sequential improvement in our flex gross margin and earnings per share. We believe that we can continue to migrate the Firm's flex revenue footprint to higher margin business, and are accelerating our hiring of permanent placement associates as the staffing cycle dynamics remain positive. We believe that our ability to generate cash flows from operations of $22.3 million in the fourth quarter, which are the highest quarterly cash flows from operations in the Firm's history, and our strong balance sheet will enable the Firm to capitalize on opportunities to accelerate our growth.

We are pleased to welcome Marjorie, an accomplished medical journalist and online specialist to About.com. This is our latest move to dramatically expand and further differentiate our high quality Health offering. Marjorie will leverage her extensive experience in health media to help us grow our health channel well past its current 4.9 million monthly visitors.

We are pleased to be making such positive progress toward our primary objective of one million users by June 30, 2007,

We've always been into horror movies. The Nightmare on Elm Street films, I've seen a million times. We watch a wide variety of horror movies. Travis just has a huge folder of them on the bus.

We've also maintained our focus on working capital, reducing it by NZ$202 million over the last 12 months

We've already shown in tests that we're capable of doing 1 million gallons a day.

We've already done $3.9 million from December 1 to 27, compared to $2.2 million in the same period last year.

We started the week with the dedication of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic Medical Building in our honor on the campus of the Eisenhower Medical Center, and we are thrilled to be ending the week with the announcement of a continuation of our 42-year relationship with Chrysler during which we have raised nearly $42 million for charity in our community. We look forward to an exciting future with our title sponsor, Chrysler, which is and continues to be the longest running sponsor-tournament relationship on the PGA TOUR.

We are losing turnover of about $1.3 million per day ... So you have to multiply that by 17 or 18 days.

We believe that these initiatives, together with improved cash flow from business operations, have enhanced our financial flexibility. We currently have sufficient resources to retire the remaining '06 convertible notes at maturity and based on current forecasts we believe we will have sufficient liquidity available to satisfy the $146 million of 5% convertible notes due March 2007. As previously announced, during the first quarter of 2006 we purchased in the open market $30 million face value of our outstanding $471 million aggregate principal amount of 9.25% Senior notes due February 2008.

We believe that Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino will provide tangible economic benefits to the community, most notably in the share of slot revenues. It is a $125 million investment in an area that hasn't seen that kind of investment in some time, if ever.

We believe that our stock remains significantly undervalued in the market and we continue to have confidence in the long-term value of our organization. Our plans to pay down $100 million of debt in 2006 remain unchanged.

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in. - I claim India for Britain!They go, - You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!- Do you have a flag?- We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!- No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association.

We still worry about next year, with fierce competition at the value end of the market, and...still look for a ceiling of around 800 million pounds on (fiscal year profits).

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history.

When you think of the Caribbean today, you think of clear blue warm water, ... Probably about 12 million years ago, it was more like the eastern Pacific; it was a bit cooler. There was greater seasonal change in temperatures, and there were more nutrients around.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

When you subtract the million dollars Charlie Crist raised from the biggest casino owner on the East Coast, he doesn't even break a million. Republican voters won't remember how much Charlie Crist raised, but they won't forget who he raised it from.

We appreciate the enthusiasm of all of our customers no matter how they choose to express their opinions. Starbucks has more than 35 million customers who visit our locations each week in 37 countries worldwide.

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

Whether they would even attempt to keep him and what the other opportunities might be is difficult to say at this point, ... I'd never say never as it relates to 49ers, but it appears if you have a No.1 pick and $24 million guarantee going to a player, there would be an accelerated time frame to get him on the field.

We've been able to extend our demographics a little younger to add some of the 20-plus generation into the mix. Our ratings are up, and the revenues have increased somewhere between $1 and $2 million a year.

When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.

We're making this investment to help meet continued, strong demand for refrigerated and pre-cooked bacon. The project is another example of the technology and food safety improvements we've initiated to position our processed meats business for future growth. For example, we've invested almost $15 million in our deli meats plant in Buffalo, N.Y., over the past two years.

We're starting out $36 million behind but we don't need as much as the front-runner,

What we're looking for is someone with a combination of fiscal awareness and educational vision. We're looking for someone who, first and foremost, is going to be a good manager for what is essentially a $50 million business that is providing for the education of an entire generation.

What this amounts to is they decided to pay $1 million and not add three years to his contract, so this is his last year. At the end of this year, Steve will be a free agent.

When we got it back from the graphic artists, none of us noticed that it made it a million million.

What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.

WFP is short of US$44 million now to feed 1.1 million people because of the drought. Without new donations, WFP will run out of food to distribute in drought affected areas by the end of February.

WFP is short $44 million (US) now to feed 1.1 million people because of the drought. Without new donations, WFP will run out of food to distribute in drought affected areas by the end of February.

WFP is short $44 million now to feed 1.1 million people because of the drought. Without new donations, WFP will run out of food to distribute in drought affected areas by the end of February.

What I actually thought of then, ... was the tape that's replayed about five million times every time there's a rain delay here at the Open, when Jimmy Connors says, 'This is what they came for; this is what we'll give them.'

We find evidence that natural selection is, in fact, maintaining those 16 genes. In fact, the human Y hasn't lost any genes over the past 6 million years.

We felt it was important as we recover from some tough financial times and we begin to add back from the $11 million cuts that we went through 3 years ago to reward some of the teachers, the custodians, the staff, the bus drivers, secretaries and so forth.

Web sites cost almost next to nothing when you are talking about a $20 million defense effort.

We brought them to Washington because last December First Lady Laura Bush came to the hurricane area to help us with Santa's Traveling Workshop that distributed toys to over one-half million kids.

We booked $21 million of advertising against that down payment in the first 12 days of selling, ... All of a sudden, the speculation that we overpaid went away.

We believe we're on track to double shipments again of seventh-generation processors from 1.8 million to 3.6 million in the third quarter, and to see that number double again in the fourth quarter.

What makes 2005 especially impressive is that we eclipsed $73 million with primarily medium-sized projects.

What's so great is that this is a moderate budgeted film that's probably going to be the most profitable for the studio this year, ... There's no back-end participations in it and it only cost us $55 million to make. This is a franchise that we built from the ground floor.

What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.

We're going to make money with this picture. It was designed so that if it (grossed) $20 million or more we would do well. From what we know right now, it's going to go significantly north of that.

We're going to hold the average to as close to $1 million as we can.

We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing.

Universal wasn't out a lot of money, a million dollars or so, so it was easy not to put a lot of effort into the movie.

World demand in the second half will average 3 million barrels a day more than in the second quarter.

With no individual global championships to aim at in 2006, my focus is the Golden League this summer, and I am looking forward to challenging for the US$1 million prize.

With nearly eighty million baby boomers starting to retire this year, and a large number of them wanting to live where it's warm, someone needed to come up with a solution, so I thought of assembling a group of investors to purchase a cruise ship and convert the cabins to condominiums.

With nearly 80 million baby boomers starting to retire this year, and a large number of them wanting to live where it's warm, someone needed to come up with a solution, so I thought of assembling a group of investors to purchase a cruise ship and convert the cabins to condominiums.

We're going to develop a variety of options that will mix commercial and retail space on the site -- that is, move away from to some degree, the 11 million square feet of commercial space and the half million square feet of retail space that was in the original plan.

We're going to continue our investigation into how an experienced detective working homicide could let this happen. It really falls on negligence ... and it's costing the taxpayers over $1 million in sanctions.

We're going to change it. White people are going to wake up. We're going to run for office. I'm running for Congress. Fifty million white men out of work, then whitey will fight. He won't fight until then.

We fear that number could climb to between 50 and 70 million by the end of the decade.

We fancied him for the Gold Cup, and he looked a million dollars for it.

We feel that the $50 million is reasonable since we haven't had a bond package since 1999. We feel it is a comfortable amount for the next five years barring any major events, like North Lake and Cypress Waters.

We're extremely excited about this year's race, especially with more than 50 million devoted fans following the NASCAR Busch Series. This year, we've got a lot going on with Lisa Marie Presley serving as grand marshal, the return of the Sam's Town Challenge as well as the special PEANUTS car in anticipation for the holiday season. We're looking forward to a race weekend filled with events the fans can really enjoy.

We're expecting tremendous growth, ... The ad market is expected to double from $200 million to $400 million this year, and growing to more than $2 billion four years from now. So we see a big opportunity.

We're expecting 2.2 million new subscribers in this model year, up to nearly 3 million this fall, which is the 2007 model year.

We're expecting 1 million people visiting in the first year, starting with the Florida State Bowling Championships, when 13,000 participants will attend over 10 weeks.

We're finding ways to lose instead of finding ways to win. That's really unfortunate. You come a million miles in a game, and you know that you need to finish it in a positive way and we haven't been able to do that in the last week and a half. If it isn't one thing it's another.

We're fairly confident it will exceed the 800 million this year.

We're getting a million hits a day on our site,

We're forecasting revenue contributions of $600 million from about 7 million upgrade (Windows 98) units where a consumer goes to (a store) and buys it.

We're forecasting $50 million in volume in 2003. This business drives 2.1 million customer visits a year as customers must come into the store to pick out, pick up, and drop off the tuxedos -- creating an excellent opportunity to drive incremental sales.

We're basically missing 5.1 million jobs at this stage of the expansion. You could even call it the case of the missing jobs, ... different paradigm.

We're aware that voting is obligatory. Let's see if they can collect fines from 5 million Peruvians.

Through his dedicated and sustained efforts in Bangladesh, Laos and other countries in south-east Asia, Dr. Gupta made small-scale aquaculture a viable means for over one million very poor farmers and women to improve their families' nutrition and well-being.

Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.

Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.

Through Munich, we were able to force our cause into the homes of 500 million people.

With the right investment environment and under the right government, Iraq could increase production by a million barrels a day every year for the next 10 years, ... It could be the largest oil exporter in the world, eclipsing Saudi Arabia.

We know estimates to build a new jail run about $90 million and would cost $25 million to operate, ... We owe it to the taxpayers of Oakland County to explore other options.

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

Ultimately, this is a national issue that demands the full attention of the President and Congress, ... Wisconsin consumers have already been overcharged $88 million by the oil companies - and prices are continuing to go up. It is time for the President or someone in Washington to take action against the Texas oil companies who are trying to use a national tragedy to enlarge their profits.

With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink.

With this new book, we expect an even bigger jump in sales and revenue. We've sold eight-and-a-half-million copies already of the new book. That's an enormous number, and we expect to hit over $100 million in sales.

With this endorsement, ... we gain the support of more than a million members of organized labor across this state.

Wow this place must have cost a million bucks.

Would I do a license today that would protect our ecosystem at the rates they said? Absolutely. Just to get it done with, absolutely. But would it last for the next 10 to 20 years and not give me protection for my business as it evolves? Not in a million years.

World producers need to bring another 1 1/2 million barrels per day on line every year to meet rising demand. So even a minor supply disruption is going to have a disproportionate impact on oil prices.

We're still a growth company. We're talking of taking the company north of $250 million in three years and that requires infrastructure.