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Rising oil prices are the biggest risk to what is otherwise shaping up as a robust recovery. Every $1 increase in the price of oil drains about $5 billion from the U.S. economy, if sustained for a year.

Rising demand for energy, food and raw materials by 2.5 billion Chinese and Indians is already having ripple effects worldwide.

Restructuring is always positive. The problem is that the scale of job cuts doesn't match with the seriousness of the situation ... and the 120 billion yen disposal of stocks, land and other holdings is too small,

requesting some $36.2 billion clearly communicates this administration's commitment to investing in our Homeland Security.

remains very strong, with over $4.3 billion in cash.

Refinancing activity was very strong in the fourth quarter, even with higher interest rates. The large share of borrowers who took cash out when refinancing their mortgages combined with the strong overall refinance volume led to an extraction of home equity through prime first-lien refinances of $70.3 billion, slightly higher than the revised estimate of $67.2 billion extracted in the third quarter. We expect the share of all refinance borrowers who take out cash to remain high in 2006 because of the relatively high cost of second mortgages and home-equity lines of credit.

Regionally, the Thai market remains buoyant. Once the political tensions subside, more investment would be seen aside from the net buy of Bt90 billion in the first two months of this year.

Part of the reason (companies are having trouble adding real reserves) is that there has not been an elephant discovery -- one over a billion barrels -- for 15 years.

Our net profit number is likely to lie north of 30 billion pesos -- another historic high for PLDT and for any other Philippine corporate.

Our nation is facing a major challenge of uplifting 260 million people who are below poverty line and we have to give better life for many millions who are on border line of poverty or just above the poverty line. To meet the needs of one billion people we have the mission of transforming India into a developed nation .... We have identified five areas where India has a core competence on integrated action for agriculture, food processing, education and health care, reliable and quality electric power, surface transport and infrastructure for all parts of the country, information technology and other strategic sectors.

Our nation is a $10 trillion-per-year economy currently possessing $19 trillion in household asset value and $11 trillion in homeowners' equity. Losses of $110 billion - spread over several years - would come to only about one percent of the total national homeowners' equity.

Our most important achievement to date is having established a definitive online leadership position through our sole focus on the estimated $200 billion global market for children's products.

People look at what we do and call us stress junkies. You just say to yourself, 'If I'm going to fall on my butt, what better place to do it than in front of a billion people?

Spotify appeared nine years after Napster, the pioneering file-sharing service, which unleashed piracy on the record business and began the cataclysm that caused worldwide revenues to decline from a peak of twenty-seven billion dollars in 1999 to fifteen billion in 2013.

That facility, when it is fully built out is going to take $1.5 billion in investments, and the lion's share of that is going to happen this year.

That adds another $27 billion to the price tag.

That added up to an economic cost of about $48 billion a year,

Lockheed now has an additional $1.7 billion of cash to deploy, and its use of it should be a key to the performance of the stock. We view the repurchase of stock as the best use of cash given its low valuation.

Let me give you a number that is pretty shocking when you hear it. The world uses 30 billion barrels of oil a year. There is no way we're replacing 30 billion barrels of oil. Just a million barrels a day is 1,000 wells producing 1,000 barrels. That's big.

It doesn't have to be some sort of brand new, $1 billion stadium like what was planned for New York.

I tell my parents, 'The university just raised a billion dollars,' and their jaws just drop. It's validation of what we already are and an investment in what we are going to become.

I think half a billion dollars is still a significant amount of money. Citizens pay attention to how much their property taxes are, particularly when your property (value) is going up pretty dramatically.

I still think it's unlikely, ... I think GM has the liquidity it needs. In addition to the cash, it has $50 billion in untapped borrowing.

It depends on how you count. If you have 80 billion of what we call primaries, and you have 25 percent in multiple stars, then about 20 billion red dwarfs are in these binary systems, but another 60 billion are single. It's not often appreciated how numerous they are, but they are the most numerous of all stars.

I think it will be reduced; $28 billion is a bit much.

It has rounded the Sun for just 5 circles, that means, most of its materials are well kept at a pristine state 4.5 billion years ago.

Jupiter Communications predicts local Internet advertising will reach $1.5 billion by 2002. We think this is going to be the emerging year and over the next five to 10 years, it's going to be a very significant part of our revenues.

Just ? I hate to say it ? but just the prestige of having the corporate headquarters of a $2 billion company in Springfield, that's nothing to sneeze at.

It is critical for Wal-Mart to start doing a billion dollars a day in sales starting on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, which is the big 30-day push for Christmas and year-end sales.

It is estimated there are more than 3 billion people in the world who live on less than $2 a day. Half of these are children and half of those are living on less than $1 a day.

I'm still trying to get my head around how spending $3 billion more constitutes cuts.

I'm shocked that we're still seeing $5 billion of VC go into software.

Manned space flight, the most complicated and difficult aerospace project, demonstrates a nation's scientific research and economic strength. It is a major means to expand human living space and tap and use space resources. China will never be a superpower, but as the world's biggest developing country, with 1.3 billion people, it should have a place in aerospace development and make due contributions.

The $4.5 billion punitive damages ordered by Judge H. Russell Holland is not a debt that is owed. Rather, they represent a windfall well in excess of the amount the jury found necessary to compensate the plaintiffs for their losses.

The $3 billion size should keep it comfortably within an already crowded 5-year sector. Speculation that Fannie would choose a 3-year may have been thwarted by the glut of 3-year sovereigns this week.

The 30% requirement is $0.5 billion at best and does not create a problem for large companies.

The $200 billion remodeling industry is almost exclusively small businesses that operate in local communities. And we can now confirm that money spent on remodeling stays local.

The acquisition creates new opportunities to further reinvest in and improve our portfolio, enabling over US$2 billion of new redevelopments to be initiated in the next four years.

The amateur porn business makes $11 billion a year. They don't get bad reviews.

The actual operating loss narrowed by 6 billion yen because of a sales gain, signaling an improvement in operating conditions.

The $8 billion (rental) business isn't going to disappear. This isn't buggy whip time. Everybody's got a DVD player.

The $60-$80 billion target by 2010 is, therefore, quite attainable, I think.

The 54-billion-ruble (some 1.9 billion US dollars) surplus will be used for development purposes and acquisition of advanced equipment,

The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

The American people deserve a 'rebate' for the wasteful costs imposed on them by our broken tax system. The dollar amount exceeds the combined revenue of Sears, Walt Disney, Microsoft, Rite Aid, and McDonald's, while the yearly paperwork volume is staggering: over 1.3 billion information items and 8 billion pages of forms and instructions. The hours expended annually in this ritual is equivalent to the labor of over 2.5 million people. Don't we all have more productive things to do with our time?

The American people already have serious concerns about the Bush-Cheney administration giving Halliburton $7 billion in no-bid Iraq contracts,

The $1.9 billion shows that the world cares greatly about the issues we face and that governments want to be sure that there is enough cash available to do everything they have to do to get the current epidemic of bird flu under control and make sure that we can prepare for a human pandemic.

The $17 billion (loss) is meaningless because it involves all sorts of accounting issues.

The 1.2 billion pounds is correct as a recapitalization.

The $12 billion being saved in student loan provisions is a significant percentage of the $40 billion in total savings over five years.

The $11.3 billion record tax receipts will narrow the state's budget gap and will help us to get our fiscal house in order.

The 10 billion barrels would be a substantial amount if there were a basis for it, and there's not at this point.

The $10.5 billion is, indeed, a stopgap measure. We do not have a good sense . . . of how much the recovery from this disaster is likely, ultimately, to cost.

That's the Republicans' hole card. Bringing home a couple billion for the labs.

I would not be surprised to see J&J come back. They've got $16 billion in cash at the end of 2005. They have tremendous financial resources. It's up to them.

I worry about those people (Toll) being in charge of $10 billion (combined) company,

Merrill has consistently bought back about $1 billion per quarter since early 2004, a pace that lately has been insufficient in offsetting balance sheet growth.

Microsoft didn't get to $8 billion in revenues and $7 billion in cash because they fell asleep at the switch.

Mike Bloomberg has been to Albany a dozen times as mayor and brought home $2.5 billion in extra budget aid over the governor's veto.

When the contract for the 22 helicopters was finalized it'll be worth about $1.3 billion dollars, and it will create up to 150 jobs during the assembly phase from mid 2002 through to mid 2006,

We need to remember that Florida has $22.5 billion in long-term debt ... True fiscal conservatives believe in paying down the state debt.

We have one of the healthiest balance sheets in the industry with more than $1 billion in cash resources available,

You just can't jump back into the market with $15 billion when it rallies.

Will it decrease fraud to zero? No. But if we reduce it to 50 percent, it could save $10 billion to $15 billion.

Will it be enough for everyone? It's not clear, but $2.5 billion is better than $1 billion, especially if they move quickly with the second half.

Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.

While the Bush administration is prepared to spend $100 billion to rid Iraq of WMD, it has been unwilling to spend more than 0.2% of that sum... this year on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

We were able to come to an agreement with Goldman Sachs on the pre-IPO market. We feel that 9 billion euro is a fair value, not overly exciting, and it's an objective value that we can put before shareholders and give them a benchmark to look at our business.

We realized we can't spend a billion dollars and do this ourselves.

We hope that all 55 blocks will be snapped up. We expect over $7 billion dollars investment within 24 months.

We have surpassed expectations by considerably exceeding the estimated overall financing gap of around US$1.2 billion, of which $1 billion is in grants.

We do not expect any significant increase in capital spending for new restaurants since net new unit growth is expected to continue at 1% to 2% in the near term. In addition, we expect to return roughly $5 billion to $6 billion to shareholders via dividends and share repurchase over the next two years.

We recently passed the $2 billion annual revenue and 5 million subscribers milestones and we have begun the new fiscal year with over 150 carrier partners around the world.

We have to raise $10 billion per year if we are to ensure that every child has access to education.

We're delivering solid profitability while maintaining lean channel inventories in a weak economic environment, ... Our balance sheet remains very strong, with over $4.2 billion in cash, and we are targeting a slight sequential increase in revenues and earnings per share in the September quarter.

We estimate that after losing $4 billion pretax in 2005 and $28 billion over the past five years, the U.S. passenger airlines could approach break-even in 2006.

We ended the year with over a billion dollars in cash reserves, a 21 percent return on invested capital and a stronger analog portfolio. Our goal in fiscal 2006 is to drive gross margins even higher.

We figure this is about a $1 billion - $1.5 billion industry and we are at least eight to ten times bigger than our nearest competitor. In other words, there's a whole lot of that apple left to eat.

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.

We certainly acknowledge there have been some problems. This is a $30-$40 billion program. It's a big transition for many people.

We couldn't spend $91 billion if we wanted to,

We must provide the Central Bank with more flexible Stabilization Fund investment portfolio, while giving a small sum of about $1 billion to investment companies, to see whose management is more effective.

We had nearly $14 billion in revenue the best in our history.

We had unintentional inventory declines in the second and third quarters, which is what you would typically get in a recession. I think companies will need to build $50 billion per quarter in inventories, even if the demand growth rate is just 3.5 percent.

We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.

We will see a billion users of the Internet before the end of the year 2000,

We've lost 14 astronauts and $5 billion in hardware with upgrades,

We have better than $8 billion in funds available.

We're upping the ante in the server and network computing market, ... Our R&D investment is delivering products that are setting new industry benchmarks, and providing customers with more innovation and choice. With a billion people on the global network today, and millions more joining each week, Sun is redefining the market in the Participation Age. Sun is delivering significant performance gains, while helping customers reduce power consumption and overall costs.

U.S. healthcare insurers process over five billion claims annually and the ability to accurately verify medical necessity coverage early in the process is expected to be a major benefit in expediting claims processing for providers and their patients. Now that Part D is a reality, insurers - in particular - will be eager to have a solution that can quickly and accurately integrate Part D requirements into their current workflow.

Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies and in the Earth were in interstellar grains - stardust grains - before the solar system formed. We're using this comet as a library that picked up records of the formation of our solar system, and has been storing them far from the sun at very low temperatures for four and a half billion years.

With the growing season coming to an end, most observers believe that the South American crop will be record large, with more uncertainty about the Argentine crop than the Brazilian crop. U.S. soybean oil stocks at the end of the most recent reporting month--January 2006--were estimated at 2.477 billion pounds, nearly 60 percent larger than stocks of a year ago. Stocks were at the highest level since August 2002.

We have an anticipated debt of $400 billion this year, and that's before the first dollar in whatever military action may be required will be expended, ... Without a question, this will exacerbate the debt and complicate our fiscal circumstances beyond anything, I would say, in history.

We will allocate up to half a billion dollars for this purpose next year.

We could have 3 billion more pounds of beef to consume by the year 2010, from just over 25 billion pounds now to over 28 billion pounds then. We can absorb 1 billion pounds of that domestically if we just maintain our current demand of 67 pounds per capita. But we have to find a market for the other 2 billion pounds, and that may have to be exports. It's critical we get Japan, South Korea, Russia, and other markets opened. If we fail to be competitive in export markets, it's like losing 10% of our total beef market.

We can't keep up. We're four and a half billion dollars short on the construction side. If that's what you have to trade for five more students, then that's maybe what it takes to trade.

We know that the global problem is probably $600 billion or more in magnitude, of which China represents 60 percent of the global problem. It's being manufactured in China, counterfeiting and piracy. It's being exported around the world and certainly into the U.S. market, so the U.S. companies are very concerned.

You know, $2 trillion is a lot. Even at his current pace, it would take Kobe Bryant more than 74 billion games to take 2 trillion shots.

Under the current plan, electricity prices are going to rise by $3 billion a year and an average of 25 per cent per year.

We can be responsible ... or we can throw caution to the wind and basically have the U.S. Treasury spend over $10 (billion) to $12 billion if everybody took advantage of the program.