billion

One reason, he said, was that he could squeeze out some $4 billion in cost savings from the two firms.

"Even cutting the F-35 entirely would not yield" the kind of savings it takes to retrench to a $500 billion annual defense budget, he said.

But he said double-digit growth toward year-end is possible after China's four trillion yuan ($585 billion) economic stimulus kicks in.

ICBC's U. S. assets have increased to more than $1 billion from basically zero since the bank opened its New York office.

Not only could it raise up to $250 billion a year but it would also fix some perverse incentives.

According to a report published by the Bank in 2006, leaks even then were costing $14 billion a year.

If he sorts out his personal life and wins some more tournaments, Mr Woods could soon be on his way to that second billion.

I'd say that the bank's ability to raise even $20 billion in a financial market like this is good sign for Chinese stocks going forward.

There was an estimation, a conservative estimation, a couple of years ago that the U. S. economy benefited by 57 billion dollars per year.

The United States frequently complains that China is not doing enough to reduce its multi-billion-dollar trade surplus with the U. S.

By how much less is it expanding today, compared to, say, a couple of billion years ago?

It isn't clear how much Everbright Bank might raise, but it is likely to be $1 billion or more.

Mr. McDonald estimates the total over-the counter market is about $200 billion a year in sales.

You're not gonna make a er, you know, nearly a billion-dollar investment unless you'd get a return on your investment.

Reisman, who has 26 clients who are borrowers of CIT, said the current $3 billion rescue plan is only a "temporary solution. "

Worldwide, the Bank estimates the power sector alone needs at least US$30 billion a year to move to a lower carbon economy.

The $240 billion does not represent an actual loss or an estimate of how much additional capital European banks might need.

That's part of why Berkshire always keeps at least $20 billion cash on hand for unforeseen events or investment opportunities, he said.

Happy homeowners were taking about $100 billion a year out of their houses, which paid for a lot of good times.

The Libya campaign has already cost three-quarters of a billion dollars, and yet Obama hasn't had to ask Congress for a dime.

Despite the fact that around one billion people worldwide suffer from chronic hunger, the problem often seems to be forgotten.

It is impossible to say how much Americans spend on illegal betting, but estimates run as high as $380 billion.

The Indian government is trying to give all 1. 2 billion Indians something like an American Social Security number, but more secure.

Local commercial livestock farmers will have to decide how much of their N$2-billion industry they want to divert to China, Mutorwa said.

The subsidy is less than $6 billion a year (though he does not say by how much).

These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion.

Watch the price of every crop rise as they are no longer able to grow enough to feed 2 billion people.

Hours after laying out his $447 billion jobs plan to a joint session of Congress, President Obama took his case directly to the public.

23-billion-dollar a year industry. And everybody from jack-in-the-box to Wall Street is clamoring to get a piece of the action.

Repeated appearances on programs with an audience of up to 1 billion viewers gradually turned "Dashan" into a household name across China.

Greece is prepared to ask euro- region governments for a bridge loan as $11. 3 billion in bonds come due next month.

Company documents reported by the Wall Street Journal said the plan would add one billion dollars a year in sales.

He said the U. S. realized US. 5 billion in trade surplus from tobacco exports in 1988.

For starters , such a machine would need to be able to make some 20 million billion calculations per second.

The bank is one of the multilateral development banks that will help disburse up to $100 billion of new lending promised by the G20.

Not much of this was new money (probably $3 billion-5 billion) and it is not clear how much, if any, has been delivered.

After four years of restructuring efforts during which it had lost more than $80 billion, GM was too enfeebled to stagger on.

Q: What did you see that caused you to pull the trigger on the $600 billion, at this point?

Debt service will cost Washington $250 billion, and may reach over a third of the total Federal budget within the next decade.

The hedges had made close to half a billion dollars and stood to make more as the stocks continued to fall.

Tribune might have been able to survive if it had not been loaded with $13 billion of debt.

The $20 billion escrow account should cover most clean-up costs as well as the potential economic damages BP might have to pay.

There's no doubt about it -- tutoring has turned into a billion-dollar business.

The emirate does not say how much its fund is worth. Estimates are between five hundred billion and nine hundred billion dollars.

Opposition to GMOs is one of the factors that have made organic products a $25-billion-a-year market in the United States.

I don't know how much money what you made, but I've traded over a billion dollars today.

A former official in a previous national government who has investigated the matter thinks the true figure was closer to $1 billion.

Funded by venture capitalists, it recently secured $53m of funding in a deal that gave it a valuation of over $1 billion.

The price China pays is often dismissed as inconsequential: what are a few billion in the grand scheme of things?

And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times - but it has not formed part of our lives!

He said in a report filed recently in Manhattan bankruptcy court that he has so far recovered more than $1 billion in assets.

It is investing at a rate of $35 billion a year, and has plans for at least four huge new coastal steel plants.

It announced today that it will buy up to 300 billion dollars in long term Treasury securities over the next six months.

Now things seem to be changing, as Diageo dips into a war chest of several billion pounds that it has accumulated in recent years.

But exactly how much being spent is mind blowing, $4 billion.

"There are two billion people on the planet affected by mental disorder, " he said. "The project may give insights into new treatments. "

U. S. electric companies are projected to spend $14 billion a year over the next 10 years to make up for years of underinvestment.

The bank said it had issued bonds worth five billion yuan this year, three billion yuan in 2009 and five billion yuan in 2007.

Trade between these Asia-Pacific partners is now worth $60 billion a year, much of it in favor of Australian mining companies.

In the last month, China shipped $25 billion in goods to the U. S. and bought only $7 billion in return, he said.

The bank is also planning to set up a fund it will manage that will pump up to $1. 5 billion more from wealthy investors into the company.

In October she extended the child-support system for poor families, at a cost of $2. 6 billion a year.

He said the 40-year-old would initially manage funds in the range of $1 billion to $3 billion, an amount that can be reset annually.

With 1. 3 billion people like this, able to grind out the toughest and most grim situations, no wonder they will be the next super power.

The result would be to keep the rate of star formation reasonably smooth, stopping a galaxy burning itself out in a mere few billion years.

With all that in mind, perhaps it was a triumph that the multi-billion-renminbi deal got done.

He said the group will create a foundation by raising at least RMB2 billion and subsidize the schooling through capital operation.

It was one of the first ad sites to go viral, getting more than 15 million hits in the first five days and nearly half a billion since.

From multi-billion dollar corporate endeavors to weekend homeowner projects, were ready to help with quality equipment top-level service.

Baidu shares are still up nearly 50 percent so far this year, giving it a market value of around $50 billion.

The Congressional Budget Office says it could spend up to $80 billion a year more on projects that would give an economic return.

The company went from losing billions of dollars a year to making more than $4 billion so far this year.

The total cost of that would be about $6 billion to $7 billion in total.

Rather, in benefiting themselves they will inadvertently serve the global interest, and especially that of the bottom billion.

He took pains to explain to shareholders that GE did not plan to amass the entire $30 billion reserve before it began spending it.

I think I had at least a billion tests, including one in which they cut out a piece of muscle from my leg and looked at under a microscope.

CIT is working to avoid bankruptcy. Icahn said the company is offering to pay $300 million of fees on the new $6 billion loan.

Toss a few seeds in the ground and maybe even in a single political term, multi-billion dollar companies can surge up to the heavens.

By 1998 it had so much money that it returned more than a third of its $7 billion in capital to its investors.

Up to $80 billion a year in additional spending could be spent on projects which would show positive economic returns.

Time will tell, of course, whether the $50 billion valuation on the social networker implied by the deal turns out to be a good investment.

Has said he would make $4 billion in loans to help domestic manufacturers retool factories and build more fuel-efficient cars.

How did GE get itself into a mess that has seen $269 billion wiped off its stockmarket value since the beginning of 2008?

Europe is not in the position of the United States, with a huge foreign debt and a $450 billion current account deficit.

The simulations tracked the sun's siblings as they passed in and out of the galaxy's spiral arms over 4. 6 billion years.

He said he wasn't sure exactly how much crude Cnooc was vying for, but that targeted investment would run into several billion dollars.

The 85 billion bailout is not a small sum of money and is supposed to help Ireland out of the crisis if appropriately used.

To give you an idea: If China had the same Internet penetration as the United States, it would have over a billion Internet users.

After recovering from losses of over $30 billion in the early 1990s, the company was in trouble again at the beginning of the next decade.

And it seems to be growing: In the first half of this year, the company processed $1. 3 billion in digital goods payments, Thompson said.

Europe is not in the position of the United States, with a huge foreign debt and a $450 billion current account deficit.

The simulations tracked the sun's siblings as they passed in and out of the galaxy's spiral arms over 4. 6 billion years.

He said he wasn't sure exactly how much crude Cnooc was vying for, but that targeted investment would run into several billion dollars.

The 85 billion bailout is not a small sum of money and is supposed to help Ireland out of the crisis if appropriately used.

To give you an idea: If China had the same Internet penetration as the United States, it would have over a billion Internet users.

After recovering from losses of over $30 billion in the early 1990s, the company was in trouble again at the beginning of the next decade.

China will spend $200 billion on railways in the next two years, much of it for high-speed rail.

And it seems to be growing: In the first half of this year, the company processed $1. 3 billion in digital goods payments, Thompson said.

GM also announced that it had secured a $5 billion revolving credit line and that its chief executive, Ed Whitacre, would soon depart.

Supernovae studies have allowed scientists to see that dark energy has been impacting galaxies since as far back as nine billion years ago.

Supernovae studies have allowed scientists to see that dark energy has been impacting galaxies since as far back as nine billion years ago.

The stakes are just as high for AIG, and for America's Treasury and Federal Reserve, to which it owes $132 billion.

So there's the back of his head with a billion holes in it.

One point I think we ran you know, 150 or 200 billion ads in a month and that was the point which Yahoo bought the company.

The company collects the thoughts, images and content of more than half a billion users - that data could be used for good.

Between 1980 and 2008 global investment was some $700 billion a year less than it would have been had the trend of the 1970s persisted.

It may look that he was one among the Billion indians who born, lives and dies without making any difference to anyone.

Trying to go head-to-head with Google costs Microsoft upward of $5 billion a year, industry executives and analysts estimate.

And while Paulson didn't get sued, because the SEC said he made no misrepresentations, he did make $1 billion on the deal.

So far, Congress has passed only a $15 billion tax credit for hiring in 2010 and a few short-term extensions of unemployment benefits.

So far, Congress has passed only a $15 billion tax credit for hiring in 2010 and a few short-term extensions of unemployment benefits.

"That's a good number but our goal is to be the first brand with a billion fans, " he said.

Even the $917 billion in savings that have already been agreed by Republicans and Democrats are not guaranteed in the long term, he said.

The President said the government will provide about eight billion dollars in additional loans to the company during this period.

The only big new spending scheme would be for research into cleaner forms of energy, which would receive $15 billion a year.

This is one of the questions in Washington in a dispute over a deal worth at least thirty-five billion dollars.

G. M. was one hundred seventy-two billion dollars in debt. Now creditors will learn who gets repaid and how much.

It was unclear how much the new presence would cost the Pentagon, which is facing years and hundreds of billion dollars in spending cuts.

The lake water is now undrinkable despite several billion dollars having been spent trying to clean it up.

Skype had expected to raise close to $1 billion through its IPO, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

Skype had expected to raise close to $1 billion through its IPO, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

One was a pledge of $100 billion a year from north to south to help pay for emissions cuts and climate adaptation by 2020.

LEWIN: So all we have to think of is in terms of energy for about five billion years.

With a market of well over 50 billion dollars a year, it is no surprise that porn producers hold much sway in entertainment.

Their works are usually painted over quickly, and cities around the world spend an estimated $30 billion a year to remove graffiti.

Police said the amount of money-laundering gang of up to 1 billion pounds.

AMERICA'S federal debt is so vast that it is hard to think about: a few billion here or there seems to make little odds.

Mr. Obama said the statistics were further proof that his multi-billion-dollar stimulus package needed to be passed as a matter of urgency.

Ms. Xiao, the bank manager, has no idea that the guy checking out her body wash is the head of a $80 billion company.

In less than a week, congressional leaders seem to have reached agreement on the monster $700 billion bank bailout.

"I want more internet, " he said. "I want every one of the six billion people on the planet to be able to connect to the internet. "

In less than a week, congressional leaders seem to have reached agreement on the monster $700 billion bank bailout.

That was more than any other nation except the U. S. and more than the $162 billion of deals by U. K. -based companies.

The energy of a supernova explosion is essentially equal to all of the energy that the sun will put out in its 10-billion-year lifetime.

Then Irish banks, saddled by poor property loans, began to sink, and the state stepped in with bailouts that total up to 50 billion.

Consider how much of the Pentagon's $550 billion-a-year budget goes toward securing oil supplies.

That fund could reach about $2 billion, said the people familiar with the matter.

The auction came just a few days after Portugal sold 1. 1 billion to China in a private placement, a person familiar with the matter said.

Future clocks that use the new improvements would be accurate to a second every 32 billion years -- more than twice the age of the universe.

Scientists believe that when the Sun swells up in four billion years, swallowing the Earth, conditions could be ideal on a warmer Titan.

But the next day it abruptly postponed until September a planned share offering expected to be worth up to $25 billion.

As it stands the U. S. government spends roughly $4 billion a year on energy research and development.

AlMA will be able to see the formation of the very first stars more than 30 billion years ago, a moment known as the cause dawn.

She said the company forecast revenue of between 32 billion Taiwan dollars and 35 billion Taiwan dollars in the three months to March 31.

"Third, " he said, "remittances, which run at about $15 billion a year to Africa, and foreign aid, are likely to be affected. "

McDonald's has enjoyed several years of strong growth. The company had almost twenty-two billion dollars in sales in two thousand six.

Vestas is "making a billion- dollar bet" that the U. S. is now poised to become a world leader in wind energy, he said.

The $60 billion a year wedding industry is hurting as much as the rest of the economy, according to a recent Bloomberg article.

Ahead of the trip, Mr. Cameron said he hoped U. K. -China bilateral trade would double over the next five years to $100 billion.

Why not copy these proven models, the engineers wondered, rather than trying to outguess 4 billion years of natural selection?

To put that into context, The U. K. government spends about 12 billion pounds a year on foreign aid.

Its principal stockholder once turned down an offer of a billion dollars for the company as a going concern.

But when was the last time you worried about smallpox, a disease that killed half a billion people last century and no longer is with us?

Meanwhile, the company will auction a number of real estate and subsidiaries, at least hope to raise 500 billion yen over the funds.

Even as America spends up to $3 billion a week in Iraq, some of your gasoline bill is surely finding its way to al-Qaeda.

The cost, he said, could top fifteen to twenty billion dollars a year over a number of years.

'Japan is prepared to lend up to $100 billion to the Fund as an interim measure, ' he wrote.

In May, so far, the bank has intervened on at least nine days -- selling an additional US$1 billion of its currency last Thursday alone.

Even if the size of the IPO surpasses that of ICBC, it still falls short of the bank's goal to raise as much as $30 billion.

Their answer was that it could, but it would require 1. 4 billion tonnes of seawater to be converted into spray each year.

Public health has very few estimates that come even close to the multi-billion dollar financial bailouts we seem to hear about every week.

But exports rose to $178 billion, pulling the trade deficit to its lowest level in three months, said the Commerce Department.

AIG is selling off the business as part of an ambitious restructuring it has had to undertake to pay off an $85 billion government loan.

To put for $4 billion in contexts that's enough to send about 80, 000 students to Princeton for a year.

He said in October that GE had about $20 billion in discretionary cash to spend as he unlocks a war chest amassed over two years.

The spiriting away of such sums is a huge blow in a land with an official GDP of just $12 billion a year.

The details of these savings, which will total 11 billion pounds, will be set out in next month's budget, he said.

So here comes a bit of science, and this is a bit of science I've done since The Bottom Billion, so it's new.

According to IPEA, a government-linked research outfit, the BNDES's subsidised interest rates cost taxpayers up to 21 billion reais a year.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai told donors his country needs $50 billion over the next five years to help turn around the shattered economy.

Pepsi's growing portfolio of "good for you" products now accounts for around $10 billion in revenues (nearly a fifth of the total).

But after losses and redemptions, that figure now is $30 billion, according to people close to the matter.

But a week later, out of nowhere, a Chinese company said it could pay $1. 3 billion for the Dutch target company.

3 billion is up for sale in two auctions, one of the largest allotments so far this year.

The original rumors said the company raised a new round of financing at a valuation of somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion.

We seem to be the only species in four billion years to have this gift.

Whether the U. S. holds on this time or not, eventually China's system, coupled with its 1. 3 billion people, should be unstoppable.

A South Sudanese official said the oil taken by the north since the dispute began is valued at nearly $1 billion.

As it copies itself, once in every billion rungs, there tends to be an error. And what that means is that DNA is, in effect, learning.

But with a projected $2 billion budget deficit, state leaders need to forget about jackpot fantasies, at least for the moment.

The smallest of the three, privately held Chrysler, did not say how much it had lost, but an educated guess was about $2 billion.

The economic cost of depression, in terms of medical bills and lost manpower, is about 60 billion yuan a year, experts said.

After the market close, Chrysler said it will need at least $5 billion more to turn the company around, and that it will cut 3, 000 jobs.

On another front, it's also heartening to see that the budget projects $645 billion in revenues from the sale of emission allowances.

Porsche racked up more than $12 billion in debt trying to takeover VW, leaving the company with a rather large $3. 5 billion cash shortfall.

But since all earmarks add up to less than $20 billion a year, that will not yield much.

The U. N. World Food Program says more than a billion people -- one in six worldwide -- do not get enough food to be healthy.

That this half-billion-dollar edifice is a good 40-minute drive from a city of any size is part of the plan.

Officials did not release exact figures for the contract but the project is estimated to be worth at least five-point-three billion dollars.

The Bank of Japan released $24 billion into the banking system, to make it easier for financial companies to borrow the cash they need.

Just a few "letters" out of six billion that make up the genetic code are responsible for most variation in human eye colour.

But even if tort reform could save the country several billion dollars a year, that is still just a sliver of overall health spending.

Freddie expects to seek up to another $35 billion in public funds when it announces results shortly that are expected to be disastrous.

The U. N. has appealed for more than $1 billion to address the crisis and has so far raised about 40 percent of the money it has requested.

The next day, Japan unveiled a ¥ 5 trillion ($51 billion) package, much of it supposed to go directly to families and small firms.

Since the beginning of the year, the bank has struck large settlements with multiple investors totaling $12. 7 billion.

He put its worth at $1. 2 billion and said the planes would be handed over to the Indian navy.

The mining industry is ready to fight the Federal Government's plan for a nine-billion-dollar new tax.

"They said, 'How much do you want: $10 billion, $20 billion? ' It was unbelievable. "

In his letter to shareholders, Moynihan went out of his way to thank U. S. taxpayers for making $45 billion in TARP funds available.

Cutting the rate to 25 percent would seem to cost the Treasury about $100 billion a year.

Over the next five years the company will be investing $4 billion in the Asia Pacific region, with India and China absorbing most of that.

To maintain the momentum if, next Monday may be just a declaration to break box-office in Taipei billion.

That followed three quarterly losses, but was still less than a tenth of the $7. 7 billion the Wall Street firm made a year earlier.

By late November the company reckoned it had lowered its annualised interest costs by nearly $1 billion.

Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch has set the bar high: The company recently announced it had exceeded a billion downloads.

The U. S. military is facing at least $450 billion in spending cuts over the next decade.

We'd like to see the United States get serious about innovation by investing $16 billion a year in clean energy R&D.

He said the spending had left Shimane $11 billion in debt, twice the size of the prefectural government's annual budget.

When compared with the forementioned supercomputer, whether in terms of size, price, and memory units, the ratio was one to 10 billion.

The Rustock botnet, which sent up to 30 billion spam messages per day, might have been run by two or three people.

The new studies tackle a more fundamental question: How much water did the moon contain inside when it formed, 4. 5 billion years ago?

I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong.

Officials say the losses, by his own estimate, were at least fifty billion dollars.

After much wrangling, it gained a $1. 2 billion judgment which it is now trying to collect in at least nine jurisdictions.

The Federal Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform said the program will run a $600 billion deficit during the next 10 years.

Nicaragua buys $1 billion a year of Venezuelan oil, and gets half of it back in low-interest, long-term loans.

To help advance trade talks, the United States was prepared to reduce U. S. farm subsidies to $14. 5 billion, Schwab said.

The automaker says that this latest push is on top of the $2. 2 billion it has invested over the last nine years.

But this did not happen, there was a tiny deviation of one extra particle of matter for every 10 billion antimatter particles.

Since the Bank created an urban development group in 1972, it has lent about $25 billion for projects designated as urban.

Morgan Stanley is pushing ahead with a return to the business, hoping to raise up to $5 billion in a buy-out fund.

Analysts said the new oral drugs could have significant commercial potential, possibly generating annual sales of $1 billion or more.

The Bank of England reckons that $100 billion of Russian deposits were shipped out of Britain in the last quarter of 2008.

The company has over $1. 1 billion in debt coming due, the vast majority of it is payable within the next month.

Now, while other majors lop off a billion or two of capex here and there, PetroChina is still spending through the cycle.

Africa's largest oil producer earns $30 billion-40 billion a year from oil, much of it disbursed without strict accounting.

The difference between the two net worth estimates was more than $1 billion for most of the top-ranked rich.

It's part of that galaxy, and it's shining as brightly as the center of the galaxy with a billion suns in it.

He said that the $44. 6 billion value of Microsoft's original bid for the company 'is a lot of money. '

"We don't look like Intel, " he said. "We're never going to be a $100 billion outfit. "

'So I lost $25 billion, ' he said. 'I started out with zero. '

It stands to raise up to $18 billion with its initial public offering, when including shares set aside to meet excess demand.

We would see a shadow of that black hole against the hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and its luminous dust lanes.

China is buying over a billion dollars a year in gold and silver from Nevada too. . . so am I but in much, much smaller quantities, lol!

And the medical-devices industry is already gearing up to escape some of the $40 billion in taxes to be slapped on it.

Money continued to invest along the same $1. 2 billion-to-$1. 4 billion a year range, and returns fell off a cliff.

Hyundai has invested $2 billion here, and recently expanded to be able to produce 650, 000 cars a year.

He has funded the war entirely out of the general $600 billion appropriated to the Defense Department.

Then on Thursday he finally stepped out of the shadows as he launched Glencore's multi-billion dollar initial public offering.

The bank, which did not return a phone call seeking comment, has taken $45 billion in bailout funds from the government.

Either Jesus is conning 2. 3 billion people who believe a lie, or he was nuts, or Jesus is who he said he was.

GE spends $1 billion a year on training, much of it on its elite management college in Crotonville.

To help combat these losses, Toyota is trying to slash costs by around $8 billion.

Matters would be worse if it were not for Washington's stimulus package, which provides more than $135 billion to support state budgets.

The "easy way out" he referred to was the Federal Reserve's decision last week to flood $600 billion into the economy.

The commodity booms are pumping unprecedented amounts of money into many, though not all, of the countries of the bottom billion.

The United States alone spends some $40 billion each year on trying to eliminate the supply of drugs.

It had pumped $600 billion into the financial markets, but was due to be wrapped up at the end of June.

The World Bank will offer Egypt four and a half billion dollars in loans over the next two years.