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

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

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

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 company celebrated with a self-mocking press release: "Groupon raises, like, a billion dollars. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

The administration has had limited success with its promise of seventy-five billion dollars to help struggling homeowners.

Its future should not be jeopardised for the sake of a few billion dollars of soyabean subsidies or a few million tonnes of beef imports.

This is one of the questions in Washington in a dispute over a deal worth at least 35 billion dollars.

I can't put down five billion dollars of my share holders' money and not be able to run the business.

It causes several billion dollars a year in agricultural losses around the world.

The central bank said it would buy up to an additional seven hundred fifty billion dollars in mortgage-related securities.

The long-term benefits of the last couple of billion dollars spent on eradication will be truly phenomenal.

Especially when in the next breath we ask them for a few billion dollars more to finance our deficit.

Now, that bank could invest up to three and a half billion dollars in the Middle East and North Africa.

That figure is projected over the next five years to soar to more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

This will inject one or two billion dollars a year at the start into the debt market.

I show him a press cutting saying the company is worth over a billion dollars.

In the six years that Microsoft owned the company, Bungie's products generated well over a billion dollars in revenue for Microsoft.

Were investors right to take fright, wiping about a billion dollars off what was a $14bn company?

Expanding Afghan forces will cost donor countries several billion dollars a year indefinitely.

The earlier report estimated profits from trafficking alone at more than thirty billion dollars a year.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently pledged ten billion dollars to help vaccinate children around the world.

If you spend one billion dollars trying to cure cancers but failed, and helped nobody.

Experts say hoarseness costs several billion dollars a year in lost productivity from people missing work.

On Tuesday, the bank sold more than five billion dollars in common stock in an effort to pay back the government.

The head teller at a New York City Bank used a computer to steal more than one and a half billion dollars in just four years.

In March, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised two billion dollars through a government agency known as OPIC.

TeleRep, with over 100 stations, generates over a billion dollars in annual billings , or 1 out of every 5 national spot dollars.

To look at our responsibilities for the cost of the war, which approaches two hundred fifty billion dollars.

Yet more than sixty colleges and universities, half of them public, have endowments worth at least one billion dollars.

Were the fungus to come to the U. S. , an estimated one billion dollars' worth of wheat would be at risk.

Rio Tinto said it would have to invest "over a billion dollars" in infrastructure to develop Riversdale's coal project in Mozambique.

Early estimates show that over the next eighteen months, California's budget deficit could reach twenty-eight billion dollars.

In May, European leaders agreed to set aside nearly seven hundred billion dollars to help troubled countries in the area.

Portugal's borrowing costs rose sharply Wednesday as it sold almost one and a half billion dollars in short-term securities.

This week, the Federal Reserve announced a program to lend up to five hundred forty billion dollars to money market mutual funds.

He estimates that up to two billion dollars worth of nitrogen , phosphorous and potassium is lost from African soil each year.

a billion dollars of American dollars that could have gone to creating jobs and businesses in the United States, opening up those markets.

Armies of hopefuls pay out half a billion dollars every year trying to cure their uncurable colds .

This week the Federal Reserve agreed to lend up to eighty-five billion dollars to the nation's largest insurance company.

Paul Getty may have put it best when he said, "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. "

By nineteen ninety-nine, reports said he was worth about one hundred billion dollars.

The airline had four billion dollars in the bank and could have kept paying its bills.

The rescue announced could include up to four billion dollars more pending congressional approval.

costs several billion dollars a year in lost productivity from people missing work.

The government has already received about a half billion dollars in fees and taxes and has not had to put up a penny.

Second fact: the President's new budget for renewable energy is barely a billion dollars in total. Less than one day of Exxon's revenues.

The nation has asked for a loan of more than five billion dollars from Russia to avoid a collapse of its financial system.

Like the earlier bill, the new one approves up to seven hundred billion dollars to buy troubled assets.

Muggle flocked to see Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which grosses nearly a billion dollars worldwide.

But you can see there's still, how much is it, 383 billion dollars of market that today's offset that we can digitize.

I wonder if a couple of billion dollars in destroyed real estate is going to be the big jobs bill we've been promised?

The plan would cost fifty billion dollars, but he promised it would not add to the budget deficit over time.

What is more, higher net revenue marks to the tune of over a billion dollars, plus lower credit costs and expenses, helped the bottom line.

Only in the last three weeks, three-quarters of a billion dollars worth of drugs - found and destroyed.

Warren Buffett has spoken of policies that have force-fed overseas investors "a few billion" dollars a day.

The company had almost twenty-two billion dollars in sales in two thousand six.

Worldwide, with the Golden apple snail found in numerous countries, it's estimated to cost between $55 to 250 billion dollars a year.

In other news this week, the Treasury Department said it will inject up to two hundred fifty billion dollars in banks.

If I had a billion dollars I would be set for life.

Likewise, people are also saying, but what about the Iraq war? You know, we spend 100 billion dollars.

Zappos, an online shoe seller, has gone on to become the model for online retailers and was acquired by Amazon for almost a billion dollars.

The measure may be supplemented by a separate action providing several billion dollars for the nation's ports and possibly its railways .

China's total outward investment is $60-$70 billion dollars a year, which is really pretty small for a country its size.

In two thousand six, the most recent year reported, power costs reached four and a half billion dollars.

Investors from the rest of the world invested less than twenty-two billion dollars in Chinese companies this year.

A few hours ago they released quarterly results showing them making over a billion dollars in profit per month.

The actions were conditions for additional government aid of up to six billion dollars.

So far the government has earmarked $1 billion dollars to boost its own online database, known as Gallica.

That tax has not raised as much money as expected, leaving the state short of several billion dollars every year.

Earlier, the central bank announced loans to banks of up to nine hundred billion dollars.

In 2003, Iceland's three biggest banks had assets of only a few billion dollars, about 100 percent of its gross domestic product.

Bill Gates of Microsoft is the richest man again for the eleventh successive year with a fortune of forty-four billion dollars.

The White House is also asking Congress for nearly two billion dollars in emergency disaster aid for the flood-ravaged Midwest.

Still, the pledges were a billion dollars below the lowest estimate of the amount needed to fight the diseases effectively.

We spend 200 billion dollars a year on diet-related illness today, with nine percent of our kids having type 2 diabetes -- 200 billion.

Well, the government could simply give Gotham a couple of hundred billion dollars, enough to make it solvent again.

N. I. H. calls itself the nation's medical research agency. But it supports research worldwide with its budget of almost 29 billion dollars.

Toyota says it expects costs and lost sales from its recent safety recalls to total two billion dollars by the end of March.

BP agreed to set aside twenty billion dollars to pay claims and damages to people working in the area's fishing and tourism industries.

Just to give you one example: Angola alone is getting 50 billion dollars a year in oil revenue.

Since before then, to the end of September, 2007, the United States has dedicated approximately $315 billion dollars to the cause.

His proposals could cost around seven hundred seventy-five billion dollars in government spending and tax cuts over two years.

The Fed will also buy up to three hundred billion dollars of long-term Treasury bonds.

They say the extra revenue, which they estimate at 150 billion dollars, could be used to help Germany weather the current economic crisis.

An industry official says airlines have lost at least $1. 7 billion dollars due to the six-day shutdown.

The world's largest drug company has agreed to pay almost two and a half billion dollars for illegal marketing of medicines.

The government proposes to spend up to sixteen billion dollars on a wireless network for public safety agencies.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn said another agreement for the U. S. sale of soybeans to China was worth nearly $2 billion dollars.

By 2020, he expects the US market for the plastics to be worth $10 billion, up from its current value of about a billion dollars.

Bees are directly responsible for pollinating nineteen billion dollars worth of crops each year in the United States alone.

Make sure you can survive for 10 years, because the software products that bring in a billion dollars a year all took that long.

US national campaigns cost several billion dollars every two years, and fundraising is relentless.

There are more than four billion dollars deposit in the bank.

A study found that endowments of more than one billion dollars earned an average return of fifteen percent in two thousand six.

You know , we spend 100 billion dollars. Why don't we spend that on doing good in the world ?

Last week the Fed offered banks up to two hundred billion dollars in loans.

This was the first year in which our balance sheet footings passed the three billion dollars mark.

Total savings in North America alone add up to half a billion dollars.

It offers seven and a half billion dollars over five years to improve health, education and security.

The navy was summoned from the ocean and sent up the Yangtze. Several billion dollars' reward was offered for Liu'S head.

Treatments for these diseases cost the United States almost one hundred fifty billion dollars every year.

The firm was forced to offer a replacement for all affected chips, at a cost of nearly half a billion dollars.

The plan could net up to $27. 8 billion dollars over the next ten years, with roughly a third of it going to reduce the budget deficit.

"Even if prices should rise, moreover, the terrible timing of my purchase has cost Berkshire several billion dollars. "

The National School Lunch Program spends 8 billion dollars feeding 30 million children a year.

The American Pet Products Association estimates that Americans will spend more than fifty billion dollars.

Still, angel investments during that period totaled eight and a half billion dollars.

One of my panelists had nearly a billion dollars under management.

To get rid of these blemishes, Americans spend more than a billion dollars each year.

(A side note: Microsoft later sold off its Apple shares, which would be worth several billion dollars today).

The BofA stake, once valued at $20bn, is now believed to be worth several billion dollars less, according to bankers.

S. - facing more than 450 billion dollars in cuts - may no longer be in a position to offset the shortfalls.

With the latest penalty, the total comes to more than two billion dollars.

Gates said that he would donate his 580 billion dollars to charity fund in name of Bill and Melinda Gates fund, none left for his children.

As managed bees take a hit, so too do wild pollinators, whose work pollinating U. S. crops is worth about three billion dollars annually.

Dexia is not alone. Two big banks in France, BNP Paribas and Societe Generale, have reported losses of more than one billion dollars.

The World Bank also promised at least one billion dollars for Tunisia.

And you had to know it was coming, since the first 3 made more than a billion dollars. -I'm back.

But the bank took several billion dollars in charges, including $6. 7 billion in credit losses.

It said that North American companies in two thousand ten raised over five billion dollars for investment in clean technologies.

If you owe the bank a billion dollars, you own the bank.

The American insurance industry says natural disasters have already caused five billion dollars in damage this year.

By contrast, Chinese diversification of several hundred billion dollars into yen would promote both systemic and Chinese national interests.

This will launch XCOR into the emerging space tourism market, estimated at over a half-billion dollars.

That may change with the arrival of more than half a billion dollars promised by the federal government to Great Lakes programs.

Four billion dollars at a time when Americans can barely fill up their tanks.

Estimates place the total damage from the storm at about seven billion dollars.

Sri Lankan-born Raj Rajaratnam was for a time worth more than 1 billion dollars, a prominent hedge fund boss.

In 1983, Charles and David bought out their brothers' share in the company for nearly a billion dollars.

President Obama has called for an additional four hundred billion dollars in defense reductions.

I salute the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Norway for the announcement, today, of over one billion dollars for global immunization.

In this country, we're spending 110 billion dollars a year on fast food.

The group estimates the unmanned mission would cost Japan 200 billion yen (two billion dollars) over the next 10 years.

A small price to pay for a musical that has grossed two billion dollars and counting.

The Internet Movie Database lists it as the fourth biggest film of all time, with almost one billion dollars in worldwide ticket sales.

The program's initial one billion dollars boosted car sales, but the money quickly ran out.

China is still intervening at a billion dollars a day.

President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to provide twenty-six billion dollars to the states for education and healthcare.

However, it was later tainted by allegations the South paid the North nearly half a billion dollars to agree to the event.

It has its headquarter in Aichi and generated about 179 billion dollars in terms of revenue during 2006.

It also includes the largest criminal fine ever in any case in the United States, more than one billion dollars.

Seven hundred billion dollars is a significant amount of money.

States will compete for more than four billion dollars in grants to support the best plans for improving schools.

AJ DUFFY: "In the past two and a half to three years, we have lost twenty billion dollars in funding for public education. "

I think she would smile. And then she'd sue me for a billion dollars.

Bank officials say they are boosting lending and other aid to developing nations by 100 billion dollars over the next three years.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

India, whose space programme has an annual budget of one billion dollars -- less than a tenth of NASA's.

In 2006two thousand six, the most reason recent year reported, power cost costs reached four and a half billion dollars.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is defending Germany's decision to cut spending by one hundred billion dollars over four years.

US, as the world's largest exporting country, its annual export amount is up to 2, 000 billion dollars.

Thirty billion dollars to states and cities to spend on "everything from police and fire support to graffiti removal and better lighting. "

China's trade surplus fell about one percent in April to a still robust 16-point-eight billion dollars as global demand weakened slightly.

Morrell also disputed the notion that less than a half billion dollars would make the five VH-71 test helicopters mission-capable.

"If they did a hundred-million-dollar bond issue, two billion dollars of swaps would be created and traded, " Schlosstein said.

Eight years and several billion dollars later, experts are still unsure about MOSE's ability to save Venice.

Additionally, its interest expenses have also been massively reduced, saving Ford around half-a-billion dollars every year.

The United States has financed the bulk of the project, estimated to cost some 100 billion dollars.

Bankers believe AIA has an embedded value of $20bn and that selling a substantial minority should yield several billion dollars.

He says the service's proposals could cut twenty billion dollars by twenty fifteen and return it to profitability.

In another study, The Standish Group reports that canceled software development projects cost organizations US$55 billion dollars annually.

BP agreed last year to put twenty billion dollars into a fund to pay fishing boat owners, workers and other people affected by the spill.

If you try to do that for the moon, you're going to burn a billion dollars in fuel alone sending a crew out there.

Despite receiving about 20 billion dollars in government aid, GM has failed to recover from a drastic drop in car sales.

It says its member nations, not including Iraq, are investing one hundred twenty billion dollars in over one hundred new oil projects.

Notwithstanding the odd billion dollars of one-off trading gains, JPMorgan will continue to glow after yesterday's third-quarter results.

In a matter of months, the airlines collectively lost four billion dollars.

But I'm not about to kiss off a billion dollars.

The difference was largely made up with spending cuts, but several billion dollars from the fund helped.

The deal values Facebook at fifty billion dollars -- more than many publicly traded Internet companies.

Several billion dollars of investment are made every year in transmission of natural gas, crude oil and hazardous chemical.

At just 34 years of age, Tanaka has amassed a stunning net worth of 2. 2 billion dollars and is climbing fast.

The company says it lost more than 8 billion dollars in the past financial year and it expects to stay in the red this year too.

It is also injecting ten-billion dollars into the financial system, to make it easier for banks to lend.

Major banks around the world are joining forces to inject as much as 180 billion dollars into global money markets.

We spend 100 billion dollars a year on diet aids.

officials say governments and private aid organizations have committed to provide the $40 billion dollars for the new push.

The U. S exported over 48 billion dollars of telecommunication equipment alone.

Democrats in Congress have proposed a plan that would cost eight hundred twenty-five billion dollars.

It contained seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollars in spending increases and tax cuts to strengthen the economy.

The government wants forty-six creditors to accept two billion dollars instead of the seven billion dollars the company owes.

They say honest fishermen and their communities lose as much as twenty-three billion dollars worth of seafood every year.

So far, he has donated more than 24 billion dollars to establish a fund to support medical security and education careers in the world.

Big companies spend 20 billion dollars a year marketing non-nutrient foods to kids. 20 billion dollars a year. 10, 000 ads most kids see.

When I got there, over half a billion dollars have been spent on research and development.

The move saves California more than a billion dollars over thenextyear. But it slows the delivery of vital government services.

Portugal may seek more than one hundred billion dollars in loans, joining Greece and Ireland in receiving aid.

The EU and the IMF are expected to provide about one hundred fifteen billion dollars -- or about half of Ireland's economy.

But the industry has been expanding for the past 10 years, and is thought to be worth several billion dollars.

China says it sold almost four billion dollars' worth in two thousand eight.

Last month, it announced a plan to buy up to six hundred billion dollars in housing-related debt.

If we invested about 13 billion dollars over the next four years, we could bring that incidence down to half.

But Tribune was struggling with thirteen billion dollars of debt in a recession.

The carmaker plans to do this by offering company stock in exchange for twenty-seven billion dollars in G.

Americans held nine hundred forty-six billion dollars in credit card debt at the end of March.

Two billion dollars of the credits were never repaid, leaving U. S. taxpayers with the bill.

A few years ago GM spent more than a billion dollars to buy out the retailers affected by its decision to eliminate its Oldsmobile brand.

Still, the nineteen ninety-five earthquake in Kobe caused an estimated one hundred billion dollars in damage.

Want to make a billion dollars, but sadly not part of a rich dynasty?

He estimated the country would need 500-600 billion dollars in investment in the next few years, without giving a precise timeframe.

The request for aid has risen from twenty-five billion dollars two weeks ago to thirty-four billion in loans and credit lines.

The Treasury will buy two hundred fifty billion dollars worth of nonvoting preferred stock in healthy banks.

The Agriculture Department says exports in this coming year could top one hundred twenty-six billion dollars.

The Asian Development Bank projects the economic loss from a bird flu pandemic in Asia could be nearly 300-billion dollars.

Yet the gap between him and his former partner Sands is arguably now a billion dollars in net worth.

Hurricane "Alicia" slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than a billion dollars' worth of damage.

Salomon had bought a billion dollars' worth of bonds in a practical joke gone wrong.

Morgan, postponed the sale of twelve billion dollars in bonds for the carmaker Chrysler.

FOUR billion dollars doesn't count as an "every day low price" , but Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, hopes it has found a bargain.

He says the seven hundred billion dollars is just for investing to strengthen the financial system.

As of mid-2009, the Federal Reserve said that this amount was about 908 billion dollars.

THIRTY billion dollars is a lot of money for anyone except America's government.

It also agreed to take responsibility for one billion dollars of Bear's hard to sell securities.

In all, Senator McCain proposes about two hundred billion dollars in new tax cuts for businesses and individuals.

Green accounting will claim that our environmental quality has been improved by x billion dollars, and add this to the GNP.

It's amazing what a little time and a few billion dollars can do.

His new way forward plan also calls for more than one billion dollars in additional economic aid for Iraq.

The source says prada would like to sell the company, offering a 20% stake for 15 million total 20 billion dollars.

Our first guest is a two-time Academy Award nominee whose films have made more than 3 billion dollars. Oh, my God!

To create a cute cartoon of a billion dollars of output value?

Currently, it is estimated that golf generates approximately $150 billion dollars annually on a worldwide basis.

The Airbus orders were valued at about 3 billion dollars while the Boeing orders added up to more than 5 billion dollars.

Already this summer, CIC has funneled a billion dollars into hedge funds, though indirectly.

In genomics now, the genome cost about a billion dollars about 10 years ago when the first one came out.

A government-owned group of companies, Dubai World, has been seeking to restructure twenty-six billion dollars of debt.

It would cost them more than one billion dollars to complete the project.

Beneath your feet lie 43m cubic metres of granite, an edifice that took 10 years and a billion dollars to assemble.

Consequently, the United Nations has bynow spent well over two billion dollars attempting to re-establish a centralgovernment in Somalia.

And the Fed agreed in March to provide twenty-nine billion dollars in loans for the sale of Bear Stearns.

The committee said it will complete purchases of six hundred billion dollars in Treasury securities in June.

The offer was worth almost forty-five billion dollars in cash and stock, or thirty-one dollars per Yahoo share.