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Building a base on the moon is not impossible. The question is, do you want to anger our international partners by reneging on our obligation to finish the space station that they've poured billions of dollars into, or do you want to finish it and risk the funds you'll need for this new era of exploration? You can do one, but you can't do both.

Because of the lack of interoperability, we can lose billions of dollars in productivity,

For years the supply chain industry has been looking for a solution to reduce the billions of dollars lost annually through shrinkage and wastage. We have developed a solution to solve the problem,

From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth. What was the spark that, billions of years ago, kickstarted the process of evolution that has brought us life as we know it today? I hope that we will get some answers to that in my lifetime.

For this governor to bully the most vulnerable is shameful. Cutting already-meager compensation for our permanent disabilities while letting insurance carriers pocket billions is a new political low.

gives hopes to the billions of people across the world.

If the federal government isn't going to do the job and Arizona is footing billions of dollars a year for illegal aliens, it makes sense for the state to get involved.

If the administration doesn't pay attention to this, they will lose support. Americans are getting killed; billions are being spent. And even when we design the constitution it doesn't protect religious freedom.

We expect to leave an excellent impression on the athletes and guests from all over the world and billions of TV audiences by staging a fantastic opening ceremony of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Whatever we do, before putting in billions of dollars, let's make sure lives are not put in jeopardy,

We've given billions of dollars to the Department of Homeland Security. I voted for those billions of dollars as a member of the Appropriations Committee. We have given as many tools as they've asked for. What in heaven's name was happening?

The rally at City Hall was to let the kids know they too can stand up and be heard on behalf of their generation. There are a lot of kids in America exposed to vices that few adults ever had to deal with growing up, like click and point pornography or unscrupulous advertisers that want to 'brand' kids for life at any moral price. Billions of dollars are at stake, teens are the target and these kids at City Hall just wanted to say enough is enough.

I agree with the President that we're going to have to spend billions to rebuild New Orleans, but I do not agree that that money should come from savage cuts in health care, education or economic development, ... Instead, we should stand up to powerful special interests and eliminate hundreds of billions in corporate welfare.

He is out of touch. Let him take the side of people who committed fraud and stole billions from investors and retirees. We'll take the side of working people who got screwed by corporate crooks. We'll see who wins.

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

It appears the White House has abandoned the idea of taxing broadcasters billions in 'analog TV spectrum fees' and instead has given its blessing to the budget reconciliation bill as the means by which to raise billions in revenue (go to the last paragraph in bold). You will recall that each White House budget submitted for the last 10 years or so has included spectrum tax provisions in the billions that would target TV broadcasters.

It is his runaway budget and trade deficits, billions spent on tax giveaways, backwards-looking energy plan designed by and for special interests, and inaction during this country's health care crisis that have created a myriad of problems for our children's generation.

It is a very bad idea for the United States government to spend tens of billions of dollars to send people to Mars and to the moon,

Just by applying this technique to the oil fields of Western Canada we would see billions of additional barrels of oil and a reduction in CO2 emissions equivalent to pulling more than 200 million cars off the road for a year,

KPMG and HVB have admitted that they and their co-conspirators used false and misleading documentation to cheat the government out of billions of dollars in taxes owed by America's wealthiest citizens.

I think companies will spend billions of dollars over the next several years building their e-commerce structures, and these dot.com employees will be leaders in helping them do that,

People are seeing that we don't have enough money to help our own people. But we are floating billions over seas.

Over the years we have consistently been spending billions of dollars more on R&D than on all aspects of marketing and advertising.

Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.

Out of one pocket we pay billions of our tax dollars to support the production of expensive, disease-causing foods. Out of the other pocket, we pay medical bills that are too high because our overweight population consumes too much of these rich, disease-causing foods.

Ring tones will be a nice little revenue bump for carriers going forward but it's not as if there will be billions and billions of dollars in their pockets tomorrow,

Reducing the federal government's massive energy waste offers enormous opportunities to save taxpayers billions of dollars for decades to come and improve the environment, ... We're starting to make progress, but there's no excuse for this much waste when leading companies in the U.S. energy-efficiency industry are willing to provide the money for improvements at no up-front cost to taxpayers.

Pataki's got to make up his mind. If he keeps asking the feds for billions for both . . . New York will wind up with nothing.

States are eventually going to save billions of dollars under the new program. And that's why very few states decided to join this lawsuit, despite requests for them to do so.

National chains like Wal-Mart, which measure their profits in the billions of dollars, should be made to pay a living wage that includes health benefits to their employees. When they don't, everyone in Suffolk is harmed.

Mark Warner has a history of flip-flopping on taxes. Despite a campaign promise not to raise taxes, while governor of Virginia he supported raising billions of dollars in taxes time and time again.

Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services

I think if you look down the road for Twitter, we would like to be a company - a service - that is used by billions of people around the world in every country in the world because we feel that the power of Twitter is that it brings people closer to each other, to their governments, to their heroes, etc.

Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're making billions doing my dances. When they do that little thing they do with their hands that's The Fly and The Pony.

Most of these are errors, not fraud. However, this erroneous billing, along with fraudulent practices, is costing our Medicare/Medicaid programs billions of dollars each year and putting these programs at risk.

We now have a situation where billions of dollars of federal funds are allocated not on the basis of where it is most needed and can be spent most effectively, but according to who's sloshing the (campaign contribution) money around so they can get the earmarks.

The $3-billion investment in four projects will employ thousands of people and generate billions of dollars of foreign exchange for Bangladesh.

The amount of resources we put in are disparate. We put billions of dollars into fuel-efficient technologies. How much are we putting into energy behavior change in a credible, systematic, testing way?

That would still leave Ottawa with billions of dollars to spend on roads and infrastructure.

I would like to see a new national discussion about what prepared means, how it's measured and what we should expect. Since 9-11, the nation has spent tens of billions of dollars on preparedness, yet we can account for very little and can hardly say what actually has been accomplished.

Most of my stand-up comedy is about being a small, scared, neurotic individual among the billions of other small, scared, neurotic individuals that make up the mass which is us. I always think the first target of a stand-up comic should be themselves-we all share our weaknesses, and it's fun to use them as a source of comedy.

Merck must be held legally responsible for its actions, ... Those actions have put lives at risk and cost shareholders billions of dollars.

Members of Congress are well aware that we are about to face massive debts and deficits, and we're spending for an entrance to a museum? It's just not a national priority under any circumstance, and less so when we've got to spend billions to clean everything up (in the Gulf).

We believe there are literally billions of dollars available in the private market to greatly enhance our infrastructure, particularly in roads, that can be brought to bear.

Were up to our necks in deficit spending. Were piling up billions more in debt that our children and grandchildren will have to pay,

We know that the cell has possessed these attributes and biological devices and has continued to use them for billions of cell generations and years.

Today there is a very thin layer of insulation in the oil market amounting to approximately one million barrels a day, meaning that every small disruption, be it a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico or riots in Nigeria or instability in the Middle East, immediately creates a rise in prices. This situation will be with us for a long time because there is no new spare capacity. Building spare capacity requires an investment of billions of dollars to create infrastructure that may sit idle most of the time. Nobody will invest on those terms,

Toll roads are as popular as smallpox. Don't waste billions of dollars on I-69. Fix the roads we have.

We give big tax cuts to the oil industry in this country even though they are making billions of dollars in profits.

We give away tens of billions to Brazil, or to one place or another, without thinking. But in those days, to give even a tiny amount to Russia was viewed almost as anathema by many parts of our own society and our political leadership, whether it was the Bush administration or the Clinton administration.

We are not sure just how much money we are going to get for this program this year because of all the billions needed for the Katrina recovery,

The problem with foreign debt emerges as the most serious obstacle. We are indebted in billions of dollars,

You have raised a tide that will bring billions of dollars into the industry and fund other teams to compete. We will begin a new era of spaceflight.

Today we filed a lawsuit that seeks to recover from the tobacco companies the billions of dollars that American taxpayers spend each year on smoke related illnesses,

The point that we're making is, if we're trying to raise the price of cigarettes to discourage smoking cigarettes that's one thing, but if we're raising taxes for tens of billions of dollars for spending, then why not give part of it back?

We are dealing with a disease that has devastated the cattle industries in other countries and that has already cost the U.S. cattle industry billions of dollars in lost beef exports.

When I go to a place like this, I expect to see the billions of stars.

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

We are investing billions of dollars in construction at Dulles Airport to handle the anticipated growth in passenger traffic there.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

There is inherent value in sharing a billion people are doing it.

I climbed like a billion stairs... its not like I can take them two at a time.

We shouldn't let anti-science zealotry shut down the ability to produce low-cost, quality food for billions across the globe.

We're trying to help the Harper government deliver on its commitment to cut spending. There are billions of dollars to be saved.

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution.

When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?

This year we are putting in nearly another $1 billion, but New York City taxpayers just can't afford to pay the billions of dollars in the state's share of school construction costs anymore. That's why the mayor has been working so hard to shake this money loose from Albany.

With billions of dollars sunk into the soil in southern Louisiana and the Gulf Coast, ... it's kind of too late. We're there, and we're staying there.

This will be the true sacerdotal human being that will look in the distance of the space of the universe as the ages of billions and billions of years, long before the age when man was enslaved collapse on him by slowly making disappear the lights in which the life of a certain star, that could be the star of his Destiny is still wavering. Through the vanity of his own Universe, man will find his true meaning that of being equal to the Universe, to not be the one that is kneeled and enslaved to its laws. Through vanity, man will feel stronger because he will realize that he is not alone in this vanity. That he does not owe any divinity and that he is as strong as any divinity in this vanity. Then vanity will become church and shield, beauty and fulfilment.

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.

When you get thousands, or millions or billions of them together in one spot, it is a fantastic, deafening chorus.

When you have a look at the potential liability they have in infringement cases, you basically could save multiple billions of dollars.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

The president often says it is the responsibility of elected officials here in Washington to face today's challenges and not to pass them on to future generations. Yet it is his runaway budget and trade deficits, billions spent on tax giveaways, backwards-looking energy plan designed by and for special interests, and inaction during this country's health-care crisis that have created a myriad of problems for our children's generation.

But now a memo forecasts administration plans for billions of dollars of cuts to America's veterans, schools, health care, homeland defense, worker-training programs and medical research,

While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system.

We've had our first test and we've failed miserably. We have spent billions of dollars in revenues to try to make our country safe and we have not made nearly enough progress.

We will only see profitability in 2007 when we expect a return of US$6.2 billion. This is a net profit margin of 1.5%, not even enough to cover the cost of capital and nowhere near recovering the billions lost since 2001. A long and difficult agenda for change involving all partners is still ahead of us.

We cannot afford to put billions of dollars into foreign adventures while we watch schools crumble in the United States.

We want to enable the billions of media consumers to become producers, ... And clearly, Yahoo is poised as a company to make significant changes in the world of social media.

Twenty-five years ago, your trains broke down all the time, they were covered in graffiti and you had no incentive to use transit. Billions of dollars later, your trains are reliable and you get discounts the more you use the system. The lesson of all this is, if you invest in transit, the riders will come.

You may be able to collect, read and digest billions of reference about aliens and UFOs. Then you will find that most of them were claimed as hoax, others vice versa. Eventually, there is only one thing you want to do about it...the close encounter.

When you open up the borders, pump in billions from outside and lift international sanctions, it's going to generate growth.

What they did was very wrong, ... Their illegal actions affected billions of dollars of sales in the U.S. alone and forced higher prices worldwide.

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.

We spend billions of dollars on projects with very little merit that serve primarily local interests.

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

To suggest that organic vegetables, which cost far more than conventional produce, can feed billions of people in parts of the world without roads or proper irrigation may be a fantasy based on the finest intentions. But it is a cruel fantasy nonetheless.

This new plan is intended to challenge the company over the next five years to again double sales, earnings and earnings per share, to create 'mega-blockbuster' products of several billion dollars and to pursue 'mega-blockbuster ideas' that can also add billions of dollars in revenue growth,

Billions would rebel in response to what they consider legitimate right of the poor that has been unjustly deferred by the rich (nations).

Billions of dollars that used to be written in the form of checks with insurance companies' names on them would instead go to credit unions, banks, and long-term investment houses. You know America: you see a financial opportunity and it sets off a gold rush.

Billions of dollars spent every year on basic medical research translate into relatively few effective new therapies, and they frequently require decades to move from discovery to clinical trials,

Billions of dollars have been spent to subsidize sprawl. It's not about no-growth. It's about control.

Billions of dollars are going into hedge funds and other investment vehicles.

Every single year we wait, we are adding billions and billions of dollars to our deficit, ... If you break your arm today, would you wait for your next physical or would you go to the hospital and get it fixed right now?

As the residential market shows signs of softening, the nonresidential market is in excellent position to pick up the slack in construction activity. Nonresidential construction not only represents billions of dollars in economic activity, but also generates a lot of related spending in furnishings and interior decor.

(A)s the opposition party, ... Democrats have a responsibility to hold the White House accountable for the painfully high price we've paid in Iraq, the thousands killed and wounded, and the billions of dollars spent. But they must do so in a way that makes it clear they are rooting for America to succeed in Iraq.

Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars of damage that happened over the past few years happened at winds speeds a lot lower than we think they are.

Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars in insured losses from the last few years are due to wind speeds lower than we thought they were.