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With all the real and pressing problems facing this state, the last thing we need to do is raise taxes $2.4 billion to create a new government-run bureaucracy to replace our current system of preschools.

There are seven billion people in the world. And I think phones are the first time most people will have access to a modern computing device. With Android, we want to enable that for people.

There are rumors that Boeing could announce a $5 billion Chinese order as early as tomorrow and, because of that speculation, the call options have become very active.

This was an extremely strong quarter for Lucent both inside and outside the U.S. and across our businesses as the company added more than $2 billion to the top line,

There is potential to push those numbers to 3.5 billion if some of the low-cost handset and infrastructure initiatives being promoted by manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, and Ericsson can help operators in India, China and Africa push coverage further inland and reach the smaller townships and villages.

There is over $10.5 billion in coins in U.S. piggybanks right now. That's what we're going after.

The opening ceremony is a crucial part of the Olympic Games. The success of a high-level Olympic Games with distinguishing features depends on the level of the opening ceremony. The 1.3 billion Chinese people are full of aspirations for the Olympic Games, and they have very high expectations for the opening ceremony. For billions of TV viewers around the world, the opening ceremony is also the 'first impression' that the Olympic Games have to offer.

The parts of that market where we compete are both nine billion euros,

There are a number of statistics to indicate that about half of the world's population has yet to make their first phone call, ... And our investment thesis is that over time, almost all of those users who make that first phone call will do so over a wireless phone. Nokia (NOK) indicated yesterday that there are about 520 million wireless subscribers today, and that number is expected to top a billion in 2002. We think it could top a billion and a half by 2004.

The photographic market remains a $5 billion market, still,

The persuadable voters are heavily inclined against the president, ... They're looking for someone to take this nation in a new direction....And I think Iraq is a perfect example: $200 billion being spent today in Iraq on -- over there when we need it over here to deal with the problems that we face here at home.

When you factor in expansion of nine present plants, there's a total (production) capacity of 6 billion gallons possible.

There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion.

There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

There are 5 billion people in the world in countries that are poorer than Mexico.

There are 400 billion stars in the galaxy, and obviously we are not going to point the Terrestrial Planet Finder at every one of them.

There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

There are 3.5 billion credit card solicitations sent out every year, ... That's 41 for every man, woman and child.

There are 2,6 billion people in the world who have no toilets, ... They are toilet-less and what we are trying to do is to build capacity for field engineers to go down to the farms, to the rural areas, to build ecological sanitation.

There are 1 billion women, worldwide, between the ages of 20 and 40. This project enables a global dialogue among this dynamic group of women poised to pick up the reins of world leadership, And global domination!

There are 1.6 billion people in the world who do not have access to drinking water. Think about Mexico. Its water is almost brown. You can't drink it.

There are 1.1 billion people throughout the world that drink unsafe drinking water, ... and until those 1.1 billion people have safe water, we're going to be putting in wells.

There are lots of businesses that are well in excess of $9 billion that have gone into bankruptcy, that have been mismanaged. And that has not served anyone very well.

There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.

There are in every year, year-end adjustments that do take place, ... Sometimes those adjustments can be as high as seven or eight billion dollars depending on the circumstances.

When you look at Atlanta and you see that 22 foreign-based companies have set up offices there since the Olympics and you see all the jobs that moved in there, you understand what's at stake. It's a heavy initial investment, to be sure. But you also are talking about possibly a $12 billion pot at the end of the rainbow if you land the games.

When you look at 26 pay periods on average and divide that into $70, it's really not going to be huge change in your take-home pay. But, cumulative, this will be a big chunk of change by the time 2010 rolls around. This is a $2.2 billion income tax cut.

The price dropped from $5.80 to $2.30 at one stage. Even now it is languishing around $3, so the shareholders have lost almost $1 billion in value.

Without reform, we are destined to relive the past all over again: $22 billion deficits, higher car taxes and the threat of bankruptcy,

Without enough consumption ability and demand, most of the 1.3 billion Chinese would only be potential consumers. A lack of market demand will make it difficult to implement China's independent innovation strategy.

Without direct financial intervention by the federal government we could soon see the financial liquidation of the airline industry, ... That is a very serious problem.  Aviation represents 10 percent of our gross domestic product. That's $700 billion dollars of a $7 trillion economy and the underpinning of mobility on which our whole economy depends.

With the closing of these funds we can continue to invest in those information technology startups that have the potential to be billion dollar international companies.

Within weeks of signing federal legislation that siphons off more than $39 billion from essential health and human service programs including Medicaid, Child Support and Child Welfare services, the President released a budget that assures, yet again, that Pennsylvania's vulnerable citizens as well as state and local governments will be asked to shoulder an undue and growing fiscal burden.

Within Time Warner right now, AOL is worth somewhere between $17 billion and $20 billion. But if the advertising business grows nicely over the next two to three years, it could be worth $25 billion to $30 billion.

Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.

When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.

We will invest 1.1 billion dollars in India, of which 150 million dollars would be for providing leasing and financial solutions to the company's customers and partners,

We will include in the budget submission an estimated 70 billion dollars. The actual figure, when we finalize, may be slightly higher or slightly lower than that.

We will have enough vaccine in about a year for 1 billion doses.

we'd be talking about $4.5 billion as a lot of money - and it is a lot of money.

We are excited about the rapid success of what started as a small real estate investment firm. Our goal is to continue growing throughout the Southeast and we truly feel that we have reached a benchmark in our industry now that we have surpassed 9 million square feet and nearly $1 billion in assets.

We are entering a new phase in the global response to AIDS. I am convinced because of political commitments, because of the money that is now increasing in a big way -- eight billion dollars (6.6 billion euros) this year -- that we are starting to see results. But in order to really reverse the tide of this epidemic we need also to focus more on children, not only adults.

We are entering a new phase in the global response to AIDS, ... I am convinced because of political commitments, because of the money that is now increasing in a big way -- eight billion dollars (6.6 billion euros) this year -- that we are starting to see results. But in order to really reverse the tide of this epidemic we need also to focus more on children, not only adults.

The president's budget cuts are broad and deep, ranging from vital job creation, worker protection and state homeland security to vital support for our manufacturers and most vulnerable citizens. On top of nearly $40 billion in cuts passed by Congress last week, Michigan can't afford the president's plan.

The President's budget calls for stricter agricultural payment caps is an important reform of an outdated agricultural subsidy program is rife with abuse and loopholes and hurts small farmers here and abroad. The U.S. government spends billion of dollars each year on farm payments that are heavily concentrated in large-scale commercial operations, distorting international markets and causing controversy and unfairness in global trade.

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.

Firm orders from the two launch customers are valued at approximately $5 billion at list prices.

Exposing utility customers to the risks of higher market-based rates - when they don't have any choices and can't shop around or switch to a less expensive supplier - could unfairly add more than a billion dollars per year to electric bills paid by household and business,

Exxon-Mobil alone, one oil company, brought in more than $7.6 billion dollars in profits over the last three months,

But look at the alternative. You could have an entire city devastated, $20 billion dollars of damage. Or you could contain the problem, make it manageable.

Both the enterprise traditional access point and the SOHO (small office/home office) segments surpassed the $1 billion landmark in 2005.

The governor is focused on passing the budget, and if all goes well, he will have directed $3.8 billion to education in four years, more than any other governor has done.

The governor has said he will not balance the state budget on the backs of government workers, but he has also said that all across the state, families are doing more with less and they expect their government to do the same. Faced with a $6 billion deficit, we don't have a choice.

The governor has saddled the state with a billion dollars in new hidden taxes just to protect his relationship with a special interest group. Minnesotans deserve better.

We're the largest home improvement company today, and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

We're the largest home improvement company today, ... and we did $30 billion last year, or less than 10 percent of the total amount of building materials sold in the U.S. So when people ask, how much runway left does Home Depot have, it's an awful lot.

We're teaming up with a major Hollywood studio, and we're making a movie called 'Copper.' It's set on Mars in the 24th century. By then we've got 27 billion people in the world, copper is the world's most valuable metal because everything runs on electricity, and there's no more burning of hydrocarbons.

We're talking big numbers. With just a 10 percent reduction, we can save more than $50 billion a year.

Yes, the market may be under pressure, due to the huge investments in the Dana Gas IPO and other factors like advent of Ramadan, Dh2 billion right share of ADCB and third quarter corporate results which will be better than expected. All these factors altogether would have their cumulative effect on the share market

Today, we're selling $2 billion in chicken, and that's significantly up from a few years ago. We believe this trend will continue so we're putting a stronger focus on chicken rather than beef but its not at the expense of beef, rather incremental to it.

While this amount may seem large, it pales in comparison to the estimated $100 billion spent each year on bottled water.

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.

You cannot exist as a $20 billion company with speculation.

We've had real good corn sales this past month and export inspections are averaging what we need to reach the USDA goal of 1.85 billion bushel estimate for the year.

We've got $1.3 billion worth of timber put on the ground in one day in southeast Mississippi. The state has been under a burn ban for the last month. We desperately need this rain.

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

We're putting a total of almost 15 billion dollars of US money into the Iraqi security forces. Obviously we have an obligation to the US taxpayer to ensure that that money is correctly used.

The recent national economic survey has apparently found another 2.4 trillion yuan (296 billion dollars) worth of output.

We will be ready to pay to shareholders no less than $1 billion -- and probably $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion -- in dividends if we don't buy new deposits.

This water I can drink right now is a luxury for 1.2 billion people in the world. Three-hundred million people south of Sahara don't have this,

This was, without a doubt, a blowout quarter. The demand picture was better than we had been expecting. Order rates remained strong in the last month of the quarter, and we generated nearly a billion dollars of cash.

This White House has a knack for evading prosecution. The only way for justice to be served is for thousands to stand up and demand that charges stick against an administration that has set aside more than a quarter billion dollars to push propaganda on the public.

This was a very competitive group of entries. The judging was tremendously difficult. Each of the entries explored the power of Revenue Optimization techniques to generate significant cash flow and improved earnings under diverse circumstances. However, the winning entry demonstrated a very real and immediate potential to revolutionize the $200 billion fashion industry.

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

We fully understand the principles of supply and demand. But it is difficult to see this as anything other than a $14 billion cash grab by the oil industry that is pouring salt into the wounds of a global crisis.

We have a brick-and-mortar company behind us, and the procurement strength of a $32 billion company. We don't have to try and strike a deal with a Coca-Cola. We don't have to build a brand name. We have one.

We have a $24 billion business that consumers absolutely love. And yet, there is very little content made only for this business.

We have a 140 billion gallon gasoline market.

We have 4 billion barrels in strategic stocks.

Underage drinking costs the United States more than $62 billion each year. At this crucial time when research shows that girls are binge drinking with alarming regularity, more must be done to reduce youth access to alcohol, and the appeal of alcohol to our youth.

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.

Twenty percent is significantly faster than we expected for the overall market, and 20 percent growth for a $32 billion company is relatively unprecedented.

Twenty-five billion frankly doesn't surprise me. In the U.S. alone, right now there are about 3 million users who would potentially be affected. One million of those are government and law-enforcement workers who would presumably be exempt -- so, say, 2 million people who are essentially addicted to their Blackberries, and without them their business would basically evaporate.

To get to 6 million barrels a day will require $30 billion to $40 billion in investment, and it assumes a bull market for oil. If you just start doubling production, but demand stays the same, that's wasteful.

You can imagine the extraordinary force that a billion gallons of water has coming over these levees, ... It happened on a seven-mile stretch simultaneously.

When you plan for $3 billion in sales and you do $2.4 billion, you have a cost problem,

What are the results and how much money have we saved? ... What are we getting for the $65 billion the taxpayers have entrusted us with?

What Canada is doing and we're a country of similar population, we're a major grain grower and what they're showing us is that even a target of about 1.4 billion litres of fuel per year in Australia is readily achievable,

We spend $117 billion a year on obesity-related diseases and 300,000 Americans die,

Through this partnership, the NGLCC will ensure that LGBT businesses have access to bid on the more than $4 billion dollars in contracts the DOI awards every year, over $2 billion of which is spent with small and disadvantaged businesses.

When all the numbers are counted, consumers could have given retailers an early holiday present, ... Last year Black Friday spending on our cards totaled $3.6 billion. We could cross $4 billion this year.

We went from one million to 20 million subscribers in the past five years. That's great, but a billion people watch CNN.

We will not allow those in who play with the feelings of 1.5 billion people.

The private sector really is who we turn to put on the games, so we will have to generate about $1.7 billion from the private sector. We've got off to a great start.

The private equity companies have never had this much money. They have $125 billion available for acquisitions.

We insure over $1.7 billion of jewelry throughout the country.

We expect the company to put its $14.5 billion of net cash to work in pursuing acquisitions to accelerate growth. That said, we would not be surprised to see the shares trade sideways until a significant acquisition is announced.

We expect Northwest to formally increase its labor asking price from $1.1 billion to $1.4 billion in the next few days.

We expect further escalation of Internet technology competition in 2006 to $2.7 billion up from $1.9 billion in 2005.

We are turning away money at this point. We will raise about $25 billion this year. In talking with many venture capital firms, I think we could have raised $100 billion if we wanted that money.