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This earmarks a lump sum of $8 billion, plus $1 billion a year, to help construct fast rail corridors around America (see map).

Mr Liveris says he is considering several $1 billion-plus deals, but has no intention of buying businesses if he harbours doubts about them.

In reality, the so-called stimulus package was actually just a deferred tax increase of $787 billion plus interest.

These may be the only two nations with billion-plus populations, but there are remarkable differences in their compositions.

Fewer distractions, for one. It also means no big acquisitions like the $10 billion-plus purchase of enterprise software maker Autonomy.

Because of their billion-plus populations, China and India are the most studied about this practice.

The company expects revenue of $14 billion, plus or minus $500 million, for the coming quarter.

High-yield seeds and ample fertilizer allow China to feed its billion-plus people on less than 10 percent of the Earth's arable land.

Still, he added that his $300 billion-plus investment fund would continue to invest in Europe, citing infrastructure as one promising area.

And in India, an agrarian country with a billion-plus people, land is dreadfully scarce.

And, in a country where two-thirds of the billion-plus population is under 30, the number of marriages is on the rise.

With its one-billion-plus population, India already is a blunt geographic wedge in China's zone of influence in Asia.

They could even work on the environmental problems affecting the billion-plus permanent residents.

The asset sales are small change compared to the $100 billion plus paid to AIG's counterparties.

Fees at California's community colleges are up 30 percent this year and $1 billion plus is being cut from the state's university system.

It took nearly $4 billion plus five years to get Chongqing Iron & Steel Group to move.

Yet for BT, the expected decline in sales this year of 4-5% will eat up much of the £ 1 billion-plus it plans in savings.

The world's billion-plus Muslims are back to eating when they like.

At six billion plus today, the earth's human population will reach more than nine billion by 2050, according to estimates.

Higher prices would partly reflect greater demand from the billion-plus people in the world who are still poorly nourished.

Founder Zuckerberg first 20-something worth $10 billion-plus.

His offer of $5 billion plus $600m in debt for Dow Jones seemed generous three years ago.

Conservatives don't want to cut the $700 billion-plus we spend on defense.

For instance, MTN, a mobile-phone company invested $1. 5 billion-plus in Iran in 2007-08 to provide coverage for more than 40% of Iranians.

Last year Iran spent $13 billion-plus on subsidising petrol.

That's in addition to the US$165 billion-plus per year needed to provide electricity in developing countries.