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As of last week, foreign investors had sold over NT$40 billion net of Taiwan equities this month. I see little reason for putting the brakes on the selling spree over the remainder of the month given the lack of catalysts for the bulls.

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.

As organizations continued to build out and upgrade their aging infrastructure, they spent more than $19 billion on enterprise routers and switches last year. Overall, the market for enterprise networking gear remains healthy, with Ethernet switches doing particularly well.

Algeria has a five-year plan for investment of over US$ 50 billion in infrastructure projects like highways, airports and houses.

The mobile phone is the most popular digital device on the planet (1.7 billion users - about one quarter of the world's population - and counting),

You're talking about $4.7 billion spent on Plan Colombia, and this is all we have to show for it?

You've lost some jobs out of this, and a fair amount of money, a few billion dollars.

You take a billion here and a billion there, and it adds up. No question, it's major.

You're going to see the tech sector grow in high yield. Anyone (tech company) whose market cap is under $20 billion could be an LBO candidate.

You're dealing with an exceedingly wealthy industry. If you hit them with a verdict of few million dollars, they could probably take that out of small change, ... The point of a punitive damage verdict is to punish the company for its wrongdoing. $3 billion (would) punish it.

You only have to look at the tropical forests, home to the great apes. Economists now calculate that they are worth US$60 billion a year as a result of their ability to remove and store global warming gases from the atmosphere alone,

This is another example of Democrats playing politics with numbers. From our perspective, user fees are more appropriate than the $1.4 billion tax increase that the Democrats proposed." ()

This is the first year under $9 billion since 2001 and the biggest gross percentage drop since 1985.

This is the first day of the month, you may have seen some end-of-the-month portfolio selling dissipating, ... And this is the day that Microsoft is distributing $33 billion in cash, so there is some anticipation of that finding its way back to the market.

This is not a two-thirds cut. We had to restructure the entire system because of the magnitude of the project. This is a $2.2 billion facility. The Navajo Nation never contemplated a project this size.

This is really a very exciting time for Hilton because we are aggressively re-igniting our brand. Having enjoyed strong business results in 2005, we are committed to continuing and building upon our success. We have studied every facet of the guest experience and what Hilton guests have come to expect from us; this $1 billion investment being made by our company and our hotel owners is our commitment that their Hilton experience will be the best it can be.

This is really a crime against the American people -- the people of the world. Three billion people have seen that movie. How could someone be so cruel?

The U.S. trucking industry, which moves 70 percent of domestic freight, is on schedule to pay $6.6 billion more for fuel this year than last -- a total of $94.3 billion, so the actions announced by the White House have the support of our motor carriers.

The White House is proposing to cut nearly $1 billion from the Airport Improvement program in 2007.

The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.

The way to build billion dollar companies is to first build something people love. There isn't really a shortcut there.

This deal gets Bank of North Carolina closer in asset size to some of its $1 billion peers in the Triad.

This distinction is a reflection of our continued achievements, which, this year, include $9.44 billion in revenue, $842.4 million in income, the delivery of 37,140 homes and a $6.77 billion in backlog.

This fundraiser has been held for nearly a decade and was planned more than a year ago. The notion that the speaker is supporting this bill for any other reason than it is good public policy that will save California consumers $1 billion is absurd.

This budget proposes $148.2 billion in new spending or tax credits over the next four years, ... I believe these numbers are correct, and we need to make sure that everyone understands them as the starting point for debate by this Congress.

This bill is replete with gimmicks. It hides $45 billion in budgetary sleight of hand. This would be laughable if it wasn't so corrosive to the public's perception of what we are doing.

This bill is replete with gimmicks, ... It hides $45 billion in budgetary sleight of hand. This would be laughable if it wasn't so corrosive to the public's perception of what we are doing.

This bill has the potential to bring a billion dollars in new capital investments into Clark County. It's the result of a unified delegation putting together a full-court press.

This amounts to a total of $50 billion in new investments in high-leverage, innovation-enabling research that will underpin and complement shorter-term and mission-oriented R&D performed by other agencies and the private sector.

This agreement could provide the US business community with 100 billion dollars worth of new opportunities in India in the energy sector alone.

They should be able to absorb more punishment if fuel prices go up. If you can eliminate a couple billion of dollars in liabilities, it certainly gives you a leg up on those who haven't done that.

This is a $300 billion issue. We have a duty.

This is a $100 billion publicly traded company with tens of thousands of shareholders. Clearly you have a lot of shareholders that have so far taken a backseat to people who casually happen upon the Web site.

This investment represents an extraordinary opportunity to position Guidant for leadership in the $3 billion global business for (cardiac rhythm management) devices, which we believe will be driven both demographically and technologically to increase significantly over the next few years,

This has been a record-breaking year for America Online, and we finished on a strong note with this quarter's performance, ... Just four years after becoming the only Internet company with $1 billion in annual revenues, we are now posting $1 billion in annual profits.

They're starting to act like a company that burned through $7 billion in cash last year.

They've got $3.6 billion in pension and healthcare liabilities. The deal would make sense from a strategic point of view, but there are a lot of issues that would need to be addressed. It would attract pretty thorough scrutiny from the government.

They still have plenty of cash. They're not going to spend $25 billion on the first day. This is just what they're allowed to buy back if they feel the timing right.

Americans spent 6 billion hours last year complying with the tax code.

Americans spend more than $350 billion in out-of-pocket medical expenses each year. One of the ways we can help is to equip consumers with tools that enable them to easily navigate through their health care information and decide what's right for them.

American consumers spent nearly $10 billion more last week on energy than they did in the same week three years ago. That's not sustainable.

American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious.

American businesses are likely to spend at least $50 billion fixing Y2K computer glitches,

Already, some $2 billion per day is being spent on the recovery efforts. We simply cannot wait for existing structures to organize and ramp up or create a whole new bureaucracy that will take many months to get up and running. We need controls that are visible and on the ground as soon as possible,

They only lost $3 million. This is a company that does a billion dollars' worth of business every year.

They have a $40 billion monopoly with unlimited resources. I'll never not worry about them.

They'd inherit $500 billion and obviously have to go in with a fire ax,

They (food companies) are putting $36 billion into directing those choices. And their methods are very effective.

They are giving away exactly what we are selling. There is no business that can survive if someone comes along and gives away their product. Google's extraordinary gain in market cap from nothing a few years ago to close to eighty billion dollars, is more due to their massive misappropriation of intellectual property than anything else.

They are so rare in number. We are talking about, in typical blood that may have over a billion cells in it, we may find only 200 to 1,000 of these cells in that billion cells. So I believe that's why other groups have not found them yet,

This outpaces anything we have had. The 9-11 donations ended up being $1 billion dollars (collected) over a long period of time.

This must be a difficult sale internally, ... They don't have enough to pay people but they have $5 billion for a hair care company.

There will always be critics of the potato because it is lowly and humble, ... But it still represents $2 billion of revenue a year in the state of Idaho -- and thousands of jobs.

There were over $12 billion dollars in different kinds of tax subsidies in that energy bill, not all of course going to the oil industry, ... simply are not needed. ... I think we need to go back and look at that energy bill.

There is one service men provide to women everywhere, regardless of race or culture, and that is courting. 3 billion men on earth, all willing to provide this service at anytime, in any place. By the way, men go about their daily business for one purpose... to get the attention of women. Like the guy coming out of his space-ship, he's been in orbit for 3 weeks; first woman he sees he'll be like, 'So, did you see me up there?'

The request for an additional $18 billion for 2002 for defense would just make this situation worse, and I told the secretary of defense I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with a way of paying for this,

The reported news of an armament deal valued at over $70 billion between the kingdom and Britain is not correct. This figure is much higher than what was agreed upon.

The report came in below the psychologically important $60 billion figure many had been expecting due to mounting oil imports.

There needs to be a lot of questions asked -- where is that $87 billion going? How much more do you have to go in for? ... We didn't ask those questions in the spring when we passed the $70 billion supplemental. America needs to have those questions asked, and we deserve to know.

There's $1.8 billion that is apparently at issue here, so this is going to be a matter that we take extremely seriously. It's impossible at this point to predict how long litigation might take.

There's $1.3 billion that you've not appropriated that we've asked for ... This is the time when we really should be investing,

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China.

The remainder of fiscal 2006 is shaping up to be extremely robust and we are on track to surpass $2 billion in annual revenue for the first time in our history,

This is the setup for 1966, 1967, 1968. If Congress goes ahead and spends another $200 billion and doesn't pay for it, it's just what LBJ did.

This is what we looked like 4.5 billion years ago. Comets haven't changed since then.

This is a very, very difficult situation for Icahn to win beyond what he's done already. This is a very large float -- 4.6 billion shares outstanding. Even with 10% of the shares, it's hard to see that he would be able to meaningfully change the direction of the company.

They're asking for a $40 billion blank check. It is a huge amount of money that would be essentially front-ended as appropriations, and then driven independent of Washington oversight.

They're doing phenomenally on the bottom line. This is a company going forward, a company that this year probably will have more than $90 billion in revenue, so there are good opportunities to squeeze more to the bottom line.

They're all solid companies. Several have revenues in excess of $1 billion and all are profitable.

They're not going to have New Orleans pumped-dry until the middle of October? What are we going to spend $52 billion on, between now and October, with a city flooded?

There's a threshold, and once you cross it, you're really not a credit union in the true sense of the word. After you've grown to be about a billion dollars or $5 billion, and you're offering everything from life insurance to stock brokerage to the full range of financial products ---- perhaps some community banks in the market don't even offer ---- it seems the tax exemption they enjoy is a bit misplaced.

A tax cut that is $800 billion or $500 billion is an irresponsible tax cut that would threaten our ability to pay down the debt, secure Medicare, Social Security and education, ... Fox News Sunday.

As we enter the final month of the quarter, we are very confident in our previously stated guidance of revenue and EPS from operations in the fourth quarter in the range of $8.5 billion to $8.8 billion and earnings per share of 26 cents on a fully diluted basis,

As we have seen in Bosnia, we have been there for more than three years, and it wasn't just one deadline lapse -- it was three. We are now running up to $20 billion and going. And I don't think anybody really knows exactly when the end point will come.

A stupendous amount of money goes into public stadiums and arenas - probably somewhere upwards of $2 billion a year, when you count all the local, state and federal money that goes into it. And the public does not get back any sort of benefit close to what it's putting into it.

A billion one-fifty (in sales) is certainly a challenge. The reason I'm not too nervous is you have such a large population, and a large population for a lottery means you have a lot more occasional players than most states do.

A billion just isn't what it used to be. There are now 793 billionaires. Three years ago there were only 476.

A billion just isn't what it used to be.

A billion here and a billion there, and soon you're talking about real money.

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.

A billion dollars -- that's fairly sizeable, but not in the scheme of things in respect to the Texas City refinery.

A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did better than that again this quarter. In the first quarter our operating margin improved over last year's by 11.7 points -- from 17.4 percent to 29.1 percent.

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

A billion dollars a year is a lot of money. You can't move that kind of oil out to the high seas without some pretty significant, high-level cooperation in the Nigerian government and the military.

A big spending driver over the past two years -- about $400 billion this year -- has been homeowners taking cash out of their homes, with the great bulk of it spent.

The mortgage is the largest obligation that people take on and it's very expensive to get a mortgage and very painful. It's not a fun process. So we've invested quite a bit of money in using the Internet and e-commerce to make it easier. Fannie Mae has become one of the largest e-commerce companies in the world. Last year, we underwrote through automated underwriting and electronically, two and a half million loans, $300 billion of transactions. This year will be over $400 billion. So e-commerce is moving into the mortgage sector and it's going to affect everybody.

According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars.

According to the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations on which I have served during the period in question, the largest increase in need during this time, from $8.3 billion to $9.1 billion, has been in transportation and utilities. Transportation needs alone represent $8.1 billion (about 38 percent) of Tennessee's total infrastructure needs.

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

A company will spend $1 million for every $1 billion generated in revenue to comply with various laws and partners.

It seems like Boston Scientific really wants this deal and will pull out all the stops to get it. It's a very rare asset. Cardiac rhythm management has $10 billion and only three companies.

It seems like a lot of money, but the school has a $12.6 billion endowment. Soap is just a basic necessity. All the other Ivies provide soap.

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

It seems we might be a little more generous with the distribution of dollars when we're talking about $5.8 billion in new money this year.

It's at the margin. It's $3 billion and change of a $50 billion company, so it's not inconsequential, but is it critical to the growth of the company going forward? No.

It's a bargain. I'd gladly pay him another $808.6 million to have him create another $65 billion in market cap.

Its a 45 million dollars market in homeland security federal government has 29 billion dollars in product and services that they are spending on products and services but we need to make sure that Illinois companies are taking advantage of this - and they way they need to take advantage is they need to have knowledge of what is happening in this area.

It was profit taking from yesterday's 100-point gain. At HK$2.5 billion the volume was extremely thin ahead of the Christmas holiday.

It was profit taking from yesterday's 100-point gain, ... At HK$2.5 billion the volume was extremely thin ahead of the Christmas holiday.