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We focus on fixing our bodies. We spend $40 billion a year on beauty products. What if we actually took that money, took that time, took that energy and started fixing the world. Women would actually be in power,

We are well way to meeting our 2001 target of $7.5 billion in capital spending having deployed just under two-thirds of this in the first half. The bulk of these dollars have gone to new technologies that enable us to make products at higher volumes with lower overall unit costs and higher performance.

The problem is that $2.2 billion will not do it in any way, shape or form.

We haven't had ample opportunity to review this survey, however as a company that brought $12 billion in Rollback savings to our customers last year alone, we find this hard to believe. But given our pledge to everyday low prices, we'll look into this.

The present value of the additional public expenditures created by the measure is estimated at about three percentage points of GDP. This bill, if implemented, would also have negative consequences for the private pension system, which as of the end of 2005 had $9.5 billion in assets under management.

The prediction as of right now is that it's going to cost between $23 billion and $25 billion, but I think it's going to be a lot more than that.

We are committed to setting aside the 700 billion dollars in surplus for tax cuts, ... Having taken care of Social Security, we believe the extra money should go to tax cuts. Period.

We are in intensified negotiations with union leaders in order to reach consensual agreements that reduce labor costs by $1.4 billion annually.

Two years ago our industry was pegged to be an $80 billion industry, and about 5 percent of that, or $4 billion, outsourced. Some new data we looked at shows that this industry by the year 2,000 will go to about $120 billion, with about $23 billion being outsourced.

To grow a $32 billion company, first you have to do $32 billion in business.

We are pumping out nine billion gallons a day.

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.

When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus, or preserved jobs in Pennsylvania, everyone was happy.

We plan to spend 20 billion lari ($12 billion) from the budget in the next four years on implementation of all tasks presented in our new programme.

We plan to consistently execute this strategy through 2002 and exit the year as a robust, growing company with more than $1 billion in cash and an intensely satisfied customer base.

We have lost over 2,000 of our best and bravest. Over 15,000 have been seriously wounded, ... We are spending more than $6 billion a month, with no end in sight. And this Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee refuses to even ask the hard questions about the misinformation and disinformation given to the American people, and the efforts made by the members of this administration to cover it up.

We're looking at $13 billion in capital investment over the next decade.

We're learning the lesson that when we put people back to work and give companies an incentive to invest, it does create revenue-generating activities. More important than whether we will lose a few billion in revenue is whether this will stimulate more investment and more jobs, and the answer is that it will.

We serve a market that's probably $250 billion in size, if you take into account all the telecommunications and data communications systems being built. Investors are looking at our historical execution and saying that they believe in our ability to capture that opportunity.

We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

We are convinced that Organic Avenue is extraordinarily well positioned to become a national leader in both the rapidly growing $5 billion organic juicing industry and the $75 billion natural foods industry, driven by an increasing number of consumers moving towards a healthier diet of organic foods.

We are glad to see solid operational performance even though a much larger-than-expected goodwill write down was taken for the AOL and cable divisions, about $45 billion in total.

We are just now getting into the planting time for spring crops, and we don't have good ground soil moisture. That current $1.5 billion loss could get a whole lot bigger in a short period of time.

... We're either going to share the cost with everyone, including the wealthiest among us by foregoing the tax cuts for the wealthiest, or we're going to put all the burden on the middle class.... We don't have to go forward with further tax cuts for the wealthy. There's a $70 billion tax cut in this particular budget. Permanently eliminating the estate-tax cut is a trillion dollars over the next 10 years. Maybe we have to forgo those for the time being.

There is, in fact, no entity in the known universe that stores and processes information more efficiently than the DNA molecule. Every DNA has 3 billion individual characteristics.

Wal-Mart understands that they have a growing public relations disaster on their hands. American people are looking at a company with $10 billion in profit and $285 billion in sales that makes excuse after excuse about why it can't provide a living wage and health care to its workers.

The question isn't whether we should or want to provide assistance, but we want to make sure we do it in as way that ensures that resources get to where they're most needed, and in a way that takes advantage of the $45 billion or so that's already been appropriated,

Tourism is a $6.35 billion industry and a huge part of the local economy along this coast. Katrina not only washed away the culturally historic communities here, it also washed away a big part of our livelihood, but it could not take away our spirit. I cannot believe the substantial progress Tourism - Caring for America volunteers made. With 20 percent of our economy laid off due to Katrina-related issues, we have been working day in and day out over the past six months to get our communities back on track. This kind of concentrated effort makes us feel like we moved mountains in just a few days.

Trading at 12 times 2005 earnings, shares are reflecting a seemingly bearish view of Pfizer's growth prospects, in our opinion. With these low expectations built into the shares, we are encouraged that Pfizer's $4 billion cost restructuring will stabilize near-term earnings.

This strength could result in orders coming in as high as $1.4 billion, above our original $1.2 billion estimate for the quarter.

This state is $32 billion behind in fixing roads. Why not let private enterprise own and build roads?

Today's announcement furthers our goal of doing what is right for our shareholders and employees, ... With our previously announced sale of nine stations, we're now close to $1 billion in aggregate sales proceeds while we continue to evaluate alternatives for our remaining stations.

Today we are announcing a significant update on our plan to address our health-care burden, which is the cornerstone of our efforts to reduce structural costs by a $5 billion (US) run rate by the end next year.

We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.

The deficit in 2006 is almost certain to increase, because the bulk of spending for Katrina and Rita will occur in 2006, ... What's worse is that when the Congressional Budget Office factors the Bush agenda into the budget, CBO sees the deficit doubling to $640 billion in 2015.

The fact that we have proposals for up to $3 billion in exit financing from four of the most prestigious financial institutions in the world is solid confirmation of the work that we have done together, and most importantly, of our ability to build on that success in the future,

The fact that the President is calling for still more tax cuts at the same time the Congress is being asked to add $800 billion to the Federal debt ceiling is beyond reckless-it places in jeopardy our future economic strength and the economic security of all Americans.

The fact that he comes from Kraft and ran a $6 billion operation, and he's now willing to take on this challenge, is a positive sign. It's also a positive the board has come to the conclusion the restructuring guys have completed what needs to be done and the company is ready to move forward.

We'll spend that one billion euros for mad cow disease, but that's all, because there's no more money left.

We're looking at a $2.1B-revenue company now, whereas two years ago it was a $1.3 billion company.

The really positive thing long-term is, the core of our infrastructure of the $5 billion to $8 billion tourism industry remained intact, ... As odd as it may sound right now, we are optimistic that this recovery is not only going to happen, its going to happen well and we're going to have a great city going again.

We believe the acquisition will become rather expensive. We assume Deutsche Post has to pay a significant premium. A price of 5 billion euros or more for a 100-percent acquisition is likely.

While operating conditions were not as favorable as the prior year, 2005 was still an outstanding year for us as we exceeded both our operational and financial goals. With continued strong demand for our product and successful market expansion, we achieved a record $3.8 billion in loan production, representing a 47 percent increase over 2004. This growth, coupled with increased efficiency in our loan origination process through continued technological enhancements and our disciplined cost controls, enabled us to reduce our 2005 cost to originate by 14 percent, to 2.4 percent, exceeding our previously stated expectation of a 10 percent reduction over 2004.

While Mike Bloomberg has spent three-and-a-half of his four years ... trying to spend $1.2 billion of our money on a West Side football stadium, between 500,000 and 800,000 New Yorkers ... remain uncovered, including 290,000 children,

With a 60 percent profit margin, even after spending $10 billion on promotion and development, the participants still stand to make an $8 billion profit.

With $7 billion in cash, they are on more of a level playing field.

With $4 billion at stake, you would fight to the last, ... has been a poison for U.S.-Canada relations?. That is what the Byrd amendment has generated.

With 3 billion people consuming 20 million barrels of oil per day . . . it is more likely that gold will rise before oil falls, because oil won't fall much.

With $2.8 billion in oil revenue surpluses, I think we could have spent a few million to help promote and show North America what a great province we live in,

With 1 billion Muslims, 16 million Jews and (millions) of Orthodox Christians, that's a lot of people fasting around the world,

With 10,000 construction jobs created, 2,000 permanent jobs, $250 million in annual economic impact projected to the region and $1.6 billion in new tax revenue over the next 30 years, I'd say, 'Jets, welcome home!'

We view this announcement as a slight positive as it may lessen some overhang on the DTV shares. However, we believe investors have already priced in $3 billion of buybacks, and GM's shares do not represent incremental repurchases of equity.

UAL shares are trading at post 9/11 lows despite boosting liquidity 9$3 billion in cash, $4 billion unencumbered planes as of 3/020, achieving labor peace and improving service. We cannot imagine an industry recovery that leaves out United, which has the industry's most attractive network.

We asked for $4 billion in savings in 2005 and got only $300 million, but we dusted ourselves off and asked for the savings again, and more, and got $6.5 billion the next year. Persistence pays off if you're doing the right thing.

We can?t risk Russia?s main treasure for a billion dollars.

We conservatively estimate that this business could range in size from $4 billion to $5 billion in 2001.

We are collecting the actual building blocks the solar system was formed from 4.5 billion years ago. We believe that the particles have a lot of information stored in them.

We have been investing steadily in the industry and expect to invest $20 billion a year over the next five years.

We have been growing at 26 per cent and fetched around US$ 1.5 billion during July-November period of the current financial year.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people -- half of God's children -- are living on less than $2 a day. That's a big thing.

We have filed a proposal for some US$3 billion worth of machinery and Japan has agreed as long as the government is willing to guarantee (the loan).

We raised more in four years than we thought we would in seven, ... We will bust through the billion -- yes we will.

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

When Obama gutted Medicare by taking $717 billion out of it, the Romney plan does not do that. The Ryan plan mimicked part of the Obama package there, the Romney plan does not. That's a big difference.

We wouldn't be spending $2 billion if we intended to shut down. We need a 30-year mine life to pay off those investments. We fully intend to keep operating. That's what pays for cleanup.

We would not be surprised to see $4-5 billion in proceeds from this transaction, which may be used for buybacks or, more likely, to support acquisitions of better growth/higher margin businesses.

We would never accept it, ... Even if they offered us a billion dollars, we'd refuse it.

We would like to know which of the president's recommendation's he would like to drop, ... We only have $250 billion left, since the president has figured this just right.

When a company is bleeding as much cash as General Motors is, cutting the dividend seems to be sort of an obvious thing. They should not have waited until the world is literally screaming, 'Why you are paying over a billion dollars of cash when you are bleeding cash?

This research confirms earlier studies showing that smaller, emerging investment managers historically have offered a performance edge over larger firms. However, these firms are often excluded from large institutional manager searches, which typically focus on established firms with more than $2 billion in assets under management. As a result, institutional investors may be overlooking potential opportunities to add alpha to their portfolios.

This report is particularly timely now in light of the recent news of Asarco, once the nation's largest mining company, going bankrupt, leaving U.S. taxpayers with more than $1 billion in unfunded environmental liabilities,

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

When combined with previously completed repurchases of nearly $1 billion this share repurchase authorization, if completed, would represent the remaining balance under the company's strategic realignment plan.

We said at E3, we want a billion consumers touched in this next generation by our industry. That was an industry message. Certainly, we can see Nintendo rallying to that cry and reiterating what Robbie said on May 16th; I heard the same words come from Iwata-san of Nintendo yesterday.

We're trying to build a solid, sound base on which to grow long term. Our goal is a billion-dollar institution in eight years or less and a $3 billion bank beyond. We have a long-term, long-range vision and goal and we're just executing to get there.

We're trying to build a solid, sound base on which to grow long term, ... Our goal is a billion-dollar institution in eight years or less and a $3 billion bank beyond. We have a long-term, long-range vision and goal and we're just executing to get there.

We sang our spacecraft to sleep today with a melody of digital ones and zeros. Stardust has performed flawlessly these last seven years and 2.88 billion miles, and deserves a rest for a while, like the rest of the team.

We thought about it and said we've put Java on a billion and a half cell phones. We know about putting software on small devices.

We think we will again need a $50 billion bridge (for '07), so we are identifying that. It is a bridge. It is not meant to be an estimate of what the '07 fiscal year costs will be. ... That will be determined by events on the ground.

We think they will, but the question for the stock is: in the year 2005, do they do $8 billion in sales or do they do $20 billion in sales? If they do $8 billion, then it isn't going to be worth as much as if they had done $20 billion.

Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

Why should a company like Wal-Mart -- who made $10 billion last year alone -- be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

Why don't we stop the stimulus spending? There's still about $400 billion or $500 billion of the stimulus plan that has not been spent. Why don't we stop it? It's not working.

Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

Why aren't they asking for it? They don't know? We already know it's going to cost at least a minimum of $60 billion to keep the troops there,

You have to borrow $2 billion a day to fund that. It's an imbalance that's unsustainable.

This year there has been a bit of a slowdown. In 2004, 19 so-called scary movies generated just over a billion dollars. This year, we've had 20 of these movies generate $580 million.

This year there has been a bit of a slowdown, ... In 2004, 19 so-called scary movies generated just over a billion dollars. This year, we've had 20 of these movies generate $580 million.

We also know that our revenue stream is probably going to have a $750 million to perhaps $1 billion deficit because the southeast region produced an extraordinary amount of our revenue stream and that is in hard state dollars,

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

We are spending $1 billion a week in Iraq.

We believe materials coming out of comets now is the same material that went into comets 4.5 billion years ago.

We believe investors have already priced in $3.0 billion of buybacks, and GM's shares do not represent incremental repurchases of equity.

With over $8 billion available before the Perry tax plan is even considered, any school finance plan that leaves our children's schools and their teachers out of the equation just doesn't add up.

With carryover supplies of corn expected to be more than 2 billion bushels, producers should plan to make some sales sometime from January to May.

With a regular venture fund, you raise, let's say, a billion dollars, and then over the next three or four years, you've got to invest that money; otherwise, the people who invested with you will say, 'What are you doing? You're just collecting fees on our money.'

With an estimated 13 billion chickens in China, this is such an extremely critical issue that there was a very high level of interest on the part of the governmental officials who attended.

With an estimated 13 billion chickens in China alone, this project represents a tremendous opportunity to further grow and diversify the Company's revenue stream. We believe that the successful demonstration will also open up opportunities in other parts of the world that have been affected by this devastating outbreak.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.