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"A large chunk of the multibillion financial black hole facing TfL is a direct result of the failure of tube privatisation, " he said.

It is currently trying to win part of a multibillion-dollar network upgrade at Sprint Nextel Corp.

It could further depress China's falling growth rate just as Beijing is rolling out a multibillion-dollar plan to boost consumer spending.

'Joe had a good friend with a multibillion-dollar Las Vegas casino business and a bad situation, ' Bohr says.

The years have dulled Mickey's personality, a result of him becoming the corporate face of a multibillion-dollar entertainment empire.

At that astonishing rate of growth, the company is on track to accomplish much more than just a multibillion-dollar IPO.

However, many do not expect a return to the multibillion dollar deals from the boom years of retail.

The Taliban and other extremists run free and a multibillion-dollar gas pipeline would be a sitting duck in their destructive path.

Aftersix months, he concluded that Toromocho held a potential multibillion-dollardeposit, he said in an interview.

Fast food is a multibillion-dollar industry, and for some of us, drive-through dinner has become a way of life.

Multibillion dollar subsidies allow cultivation of these plants elsewhere, which requires more land and hurts farmers in poor countries.

Tea party-backed lawmakers echo that argument, and they're not exempting the military's multibillion-dollar budget in a time of war.

The Californian legislature has until midnight tonight to come up with a solution to the state's multibillion-dollar budget deficit.

NASA administrator Doug Cooke said competition for the multibillion-dollar contract to build the next manned lunar spaceship was fierce.

There was much talk of further multibillion-dollar writedowns as a result of the subprime crisis.

Clark is critical of some of his Silicon Valley brethren who haven't been as generous, despite their multibillion-dollar net worth.

The finding is the latest blow for rimonabant, which once was predicted to be a multibillion-dollar seller.

De Lille blew the lid on corruption in South Africa's 1999 multibillion-dollar arms deal and was a witness in the case against Zuma.

If the results are confirmed in clinical trials, heart disease may be a multibillion dollar market for stem cell therapies.

Lawyers advising the states said they would eventually seek multibillion dollar payouts, but it was still too early to give a tally.

The letter was sent to the FCC just weeks before Sprint was expected to choose suppliers for a multibillion-dollar network upgrade.

The sex-discrimination case alone could result in a multibillion-dollar settlement, says plaintiff's attorney Joseph Sellers.

The industry's multibillion-pound "short" positions in financial stocks have been blamed for undermining struggling banks.

But a straight sale to the majority shareholders would mean writing a multibillion-dollar tax cheque.

They are in a sense . . . multibillion-dollar predictions because of the vast amount of money behind the trades that set them.

Still, Beijing has way too much invested in its multibillion-dollar energy relationship with Tehran to risk it easily.

That's tragic, and I hope we consider schooling and jobs every bit as important as our multibillion-dollar surge in Afghanistan.

To halve deforestation within a decade, a multibillion dollar injection is needed now, write Donald P Kanak and Andrew W Mitchell .

A multibillion-dollar award would be a blow, but one Wal-Mart could absorb.

The London-based, multibillion-dollar fund has about a quarter of its assets invested in Asia.

Analysts questioned whether its technology and relatively small revenues justified the multibillion-pound price tag.

The ICBC listing topped a number of other multibillion dollar Chinese IPOs that bypassed London and New York.

Will my few minutes with Maya change our multibillion dollar beauty industry, reality shows that demean women, our celebrity-manic culture?

By the time we decided to adopt, in the spring of 2007, the seed from the East had sprouted a multibillion-dollar industry.

The international trade, driven largely by Japan's appetite for grilled eel, called kabayaki, is a multibillion-dollar industry.

The Greek government has already begun readying severe austerity measures to secure the multibillion euro assistance.

Authorities slowed expansion of the multibillion-dollar bullet train system following the July 23 crash near Wenzhou, in southeastern China.

The best-known example, of course, is the multibillion-dollar weather-reporting industry.

The changes would impact on the multibillion-dollar Brent market of physical, forward, swaps, futures and options contracts.

But China has reacted angrily to previous reports and has insisted that its multibillion-dollar military buildup is defensive.

Realm: Chinachem Group, a multibillion-dollar company that deals with pharmaceuticals and property.

For GE, that means graduating into a "big, multibillion-dollar business" .

Yoga has changed its image. An element of Indian culture - a quasi-religious element - has become a multibillion-dollar industry.

The men oversaw multibillion-dollar hedge funds which collapsed in June.

Last week in Beijing, Rubenstein unveiled an agreement with Beijing's city government to launch a multibillion yuan fund.

The student project of Larry Page and Sergey Brin has grown into the multibillion-dollar search giant Google.

California state lawmakers approved a massive budget aimed at closing a multibillion-dollar deficit.

Over the past few months, these companies have launched major multibillion-dollar oil deals from Russia to Brazil to Iraq.

Lai, 53, is the chief suspect in a multibillion-dollar smuggling operation that dates back to the 1990s in the southeastern city of Xiamen.

His multibillion dollar arms purchases from Russia are a particular worry.

Both drugs, with multibillion-dollar sales at their peak, were linked to serious heart problems and heart attacks.

The market's closure has highlighted the multibillion-dollar trade in 'gray imports' between Russia and China.

A large number of resins used in the multibillion-dollar ink and toner industry also mostly are based on petroleum.

BAE teamed up with Northrop Grumman to bid on the multibillion-dollar vehicle-development program.

It says China would need a special waiver from the group's 46 member states to go ahead with the multibillion-dollar sale.

On the one hand, tourism, as a multibillion-dollar business, is booming everywhere.

Both Brendsel and Raines have been deposed in the wake of multibillion-dollar accounting scandals.

Now American businesses can enter India's multibillion-dollar nuclear market.

On Friday, China offered multibillion-dollar loans and $10b worth of business contracts to Indonesia.

So, why is it that the multibillion dollar cosmetic and toiletry industry has not acted on this information?

Why would you ban a multibillion dollar industry that takes money from foreigners?

It's a multibillion-dollar industry; it makes more money than the NFL, the NBA, and Major League Baseball combined.

He left without the multibillion-dollar loan he wanted, though.

Today, the global iron-ore trade is dominated by three companies with multibillion-dollar businesses selling minerals in China.

As Mr. Pichette put it, 'We are building multibillion-dollar businesses, and we're confident that now is the time to invest. '

Together, those kinds of products and services are already a multibillion-dollar market, industry analysts say.

The drug arrived in 1998 and has since been prescribed to 25 million men creating a multibillion pound global market.

They announced multibillion-dollar investments in China and other emerging markets in the depths of the financial crisis.

But backers see a multibillion-dollar windfall in tough times, and they will likely try again.

Facebook has built a multibillion-dollar ad business because of such data.

It's the opportunity of a lifetime, the banker swears: the chance to buy a multibillion-dollar stake in a big Wall Street firm.

But Uniqlo is part of a multibillion-dollar Japanese corporation, and the vast majority of its clothing is made in China.

She delivered a letter from Sinopec, one of China's giant, state-controlled energy firms, proposing a multibillion-dollar takeover.

Announcements made on the new, multibillion-dollar light rail were delivered in English almost as creaky as my Mandarin.

Early last year, the multibillion-dollar tax-equity universe consisted of 18 providers.

Last year, the chief executive of Las Vegas Sands placed a multibillion- dollar treble on the future of Asian gaming.

Similar worries last year helped sink Huawei's bid to win a part in a multibillion-dollar network upgrade by Sprint Nextel Corp.