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Despite these efforts, most states will see at least some cuts, adding up to billions of dollars around the country.

You rolled out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, millions and billions of keys that never end.

It has boosted the education budget by billions of pounds in recent years and made education one of the linchpins of its agenda.

The majority of animals killed for fur end up in as fur trim, a sector of the industry worth billions of dollars a year.

My grandfather used to say, the purpose of business is not to pile up millions or billions, but to produce happiness.

China will never see that it could have used the billions it has gained to develop an entirely new and innovative paradigm in state-craft.

Those billions of small pieces of plastic in use all over the world make it easy to buy things.

Each one of these strike-throughs meant billions of dollars and thousands of jobs lost in dozens of congressional districts.

Describing it as a "catastrophe" , Haiti's envoyto the US said the cost of the damage could run into billions.

If that happened, the bank would be forced to put up billions in extra collateral, eating into its liquidity.

For an administration ready to spend billions on a "cash for clunkers" programme, its policies are inconsistent.

But after spending tens of billions of dollars and huge political energy, China's leaders might be wondering whether it was all worth it.

A difference of just a few percentage points on natural-gas prices, he added, translates into billions of dollars.

Billions of American dollars have been used to save the lives of many Africans.

For Wal-Mart, the case could mean billions in damages, though the lawyers for the women haven't specified how much they are seeking.

Officials said the country would save billions in healthcare costs by coming up with a glass that doesn't double as a lethal weapon.

Black holes millions or billions times as massive as the sun reside at the heart of most galaxies, including our own.

A nation weary of wasting billions on unctuous educators who never deliver what they promise may be ready to hear some hard truths.

The bank has pumped billions of dollar into the financial system to stabilise the economy since the massive earthquake.

So what exactly is the president proposing to help him realize hundreds of billions of dollars a year in savings?

Such a structure would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, even if it were technically feasible.

And I have to tell you that although millions doesn't sound like a lot in terms of the billions that need to be connected, it's a start.

This would do nothing for the economy now, but it would reduce revenues by billions of dollars a year, permanently.

The loss comes after it was forced to give up billions of dollars of tax credits in the US that it had previously counted as earnings.

The President continues to push for stimulus even though hundreds of billions of dollars in such funds seem to have done little.

If their speed had been constant, they would all have been on top of one another billions of years ago. Was this how the universe began?

But Bernard Madoff has robbed the world of such a catharsis, just as he robbed almost 5, 000 credulous clients of billions of dollars.

And LISA will be able to see super-massive black holes -- black holes millions or billions of times the mass of the Sun.

There must have been a time billions of years ago when life crossed the threshold of irreversibility.

Liberals want nothing more than to see a small population of American overran by billions of Asians.

The central government also continues to subsidise the cost of electricity to the tune of billions of dollars a year.

are generating billions of data points about all their users, and you may wonder, "What do they plan to do with all that information? "

He said "our banking system is going to lose hundreds of billions of dollars" and taxpayer money was "going down the drain" .

Yet for all the fury over stolen billions, it will not be easy to take the alleged loot home.

They would not be so prosperous without the billions they made betting against the fanciful financial instruments mentioned above.

Watson pondered for a minute. " Astronomically , it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. "

It's time to stop spending billions of dollars a week on a blank check for an Iraqi government that won't spend its own oil revenues.

But it's not the only criminal enterprise raking in billions of dollars a year.

The catch: Investors want to see a link to San Francisco or Los Angeles closer to completion before they put in billions, he said.

No matter how he made his claimed billions, a part of his fortune depends now on his celebrity.

In the court next to me was a man whose business collapsed not long ago, after it had borrowed billions of pounds.

For Shell, Exxon et al to hoard oil underground would be to leave billions of dollars of investment languishing unused.

Provide FairShare with an RSS feed of your content and the service will compare it to billions of indexed pages around the web.

I realized this happily and was then inspired to take a step beyond myself and reach out to that world, to its billions of people.

In the 1980s America spent billions trying to overthrow the Sandinistas as part of its global tussle against communism.

You'll see that server-side application development for the billions of phones used around the world can be surprisingly easy.

Then the Bank of England sprang to the rescue, announcing that it would spend tens of billions of pounds acquiring government bonds.

It has run up to billions of U. S. dollars and billions in other currencies due to losses that incurred to global participants in the U.

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

He said he expects the combined response from the United States and other major donor states to ultimately be in the billions of dollars.

How the Mubarak family made its billions "A government by organized money is just as bad as a government by organized mob" .

'We no longer can ignore what is owed to us, ' he said, adding that Washington owes the state billions of dollars for various programs.

For decades, India's sprawling and inefficient bureaucracy has spent billions of dollars to try to drag the poor out of poverty.

Smokers who have to leave the office to cop a drag must cost their nation billions each year.

'If life can evolve, it's going to have billions and billions of years to adapt to the surface.

That has made it a big business, with sponsorship and television deals totaling billions of dollars.

"Pure" ageing is the result of an accumulation of random molecular damage to that "society of billions of cells" that comprises our body.

In a world where action on global warming has created new markets in carbon worth billions of pounds, countries are not the only players.

But a closer look revealed that they were billions of light-years away, far beyond the confines of our galaxy.

Chinese firms have received billions of dollars worth of carbon credits, much of which has been used to fund wind farms.

Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land, exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions.

Nearly a year later, despite billions of dollars in international aid pouring into the country, the prospects for most Haitians look bleak.

But with the syndicate, billions of dollars meant for schools, roads and hospitals have apparently ended up in private accounts.

But Majo said the situation was "not serious" because a new Internet protocol will allow the production of billions more Internet addresses.

Call it a scam, but Ty's line of collectibles created the most insane fad frenzy of all time, and he now sits on billions.

Much has been made of the billions of dollars that small investors have been pulling out of stock funds.

Literally billions of individuals who formerly were the backbone of the dark's Anchara Empires now yearn to become fully conscious and free.

It wasn't until billions of years later that you took physical form and began your journey on this planet in a physical bubble of biology.

Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, said the programme would initially cost "hundreds of billions of dollars. "

Such a pill could bring in billions of dollars a year.

China has invested billions of dollars in Africa in recent years, much of it to secure natural resources for the booming Chinese economy.

The Supreme Court has chided Mr Singh for dragging his feet over a scam at the telecoms ministry costing probably billions of dollars.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett has a Chinese car problem, and he may be tempted to fix it himself -- at a cost of billions of dollars.

Out of the other billions of galaxies that consist of billions of stars and planets, is there a chance that Extraterrestrials are real?

Billions suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, an insidious form of malnutrition caused by an inadequate diet.

It could cost the poorest nations hundreds of billions of dollars a year to curb their emissions and adapt to inevitable climate change.

Asia's central banks have invested billions of dollars in credit markets since the U. S. financial crisis started to spread in September.

This ends up being worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year to the US economy. But it probably won't last forever.

The company produces billions of cars a year.

Add those pennies up and you get a potential market worth billions of dollars a year.

The folds increased the surface area available for the billions of neurons in the human neo-cortex.

It has been argued that the main benefit would be the billions of dollars that would be the immediate windfall from any sale.

Along with a new secured credit facility for the GSEs , the cost of this bail-out might run into hundreds of billions of dollars .

I estimate that the suggested exemption , if implemented, would cost billions of dollars a year in lost tax .

WorldCom , the largest of these , was found to have used illegal accounting practices to overstate its profits by billions of dollars .

These come at a time of recession when banks are reporting billions in losses in their credit card divisions.

The fund's staff argued that the source was their own investigations (albeit of a small chunk of the billions it has distributed).

"Ultimately, this was an enormous fraud on taxpayers who ended up paying billions for Bank of America's misdeeds. "

You came to Motorola when it was losing billions of dollars. This was an emergency situation.

It was like a hidden passage on Wall Street, a secret channel that enabled billions of dollars to flow through Lehman Brothers.

It also sees security becoming a key requirement as billions of new devices are connected to the internet over the next few years.

Heard that Xu Jinglei's blog, click on all the billions of dollars, I do not require so much, even if it is a single-digit, I will happy.

Hundreds of billions of dollars of CDOs have defaulted, but the structures can only be liquidated if the underlying collateral can be sold.

And yet he carried on building up a business which is now worth billions.

This is going to add billions to the industry's cost base and the industry is unlikely to be able to absorb the cost.

Commerce is a central part of the human experience. More prosaically, it is what billions of people do all day.

Buffett is against provisions that would require Berkshire to set aside billions in capital to cover derivatives contracts it has written.

At least six efforts to raise billions of dollars -- including selling a stake to leveraged-buyout titan Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

The disease would later be dubbed SARS and was the cause of global panic and billions of dollars in losses.

The mobile electronics market is booming, producing billions of units a year and billions of dollars in profits.

You've suggested several times that the hideous death of billions is the only alternative to a retooled status quo.

From day one of Genesis, it took billions of years for life to reach plant stage, and another billion and a half before fish appeared.

Species get their next to perfect bodies during billions of years of development. They are the natural teacher to us.

But banks have been among the largest players, pumping billions more into new policies since the 2006 rules were put in place.

That it has invested billions more to gain access to natural resources in Iran and Australia and all over Africa?

Billions of pounds have been spent propping up the banking sector - something which has sent government borrowing through the roof.

When the housing market collapsed, Citigroup suffered billions of dollars in losses that dwarfed the fees it had collected.

Solar projects will either have to be abandoned, or governments will have to pay billions of additional dollars in subsidies.

Many billions do claim to have come to Pakistan in last several years, yet people find virtually no impact of this.

And Tony, with free time on his hands and billions to spend, heads to Monte Carlo to race cars.

Before that move, Citi had suffered billions of dollars in losses on such assets, prompting the US government to spend $45bn to bail it out.

All the changes are good from a stability perspective but add billions to the fixed operating cost of a bank.

Billions of dollars in infrastructure projects could be in jeopardy, builders say, threatening one of the world's largest programs.

Coping with climate change will cost poor countries tens of billions of dollars a year by most reckonings .

It has hundreds of billions of euros with which to place macroeconomic bets.

GM and Chrysler, however, may not survive long enough to be bailed out, and Ford is burning through the billions, too.

The bill now looks certain to pass this week, though tens of billions of dollars of spending has been stripped out of it.

Chinese mobile operators are expected to spend tens of billions of dollars on network equipment over the next three years.

The savings, analysts say, will translate into billions of dollars a year and acres of freed-up real estate.

With billions in oil revenue, the local government in Alaska has decided to give some of that money to the people.

The human beings who have studied, memorized, recited, and treasured the Heart Sutra probably number in the billions.

Capitalism. It is in no way honored by spending billions of dollars of tax monies to put a piece of painted metal on the moon.

The Chinese government appears ready to spend billions to grapple with this dismal situation.

"We are the only country, " Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche scoffed, "that has created a program worth billions to subsidize foreign industry. "

With the issuance of a few decrees from Beijing, domestic investors who plowed their own savings into mining lost billions.

The World Bank says dealing with climate change will require hundreds of billions a year in public and private financing.

Fears of a violent confrontation have led to billions of baht being wiped off the stock exchange of Thailand in the past month.

We on Earth have protection in the form of a magnetic shield. But that shield is dead on Mars, gone for billions of years.

BP, for its part, is searching for a truce with the American government that will involve it paying billions of dollars in compensation.

Those with billions in assets under management also do not really care too much about real estate prices for offices or their homes.

For the second time in a year, Mr Papandreou is having to beg European leaders for billions of euros in emergency loans.

The country needs to invest steadily and wisely on infrastructure, not rush hundreds of billions of dollars out the door.

The model of the hedge fund industry they popularised, able to deploy billions of dollars on a whim, is fast becoming a thing of the past.

But anyone with an Internet-connectedcomputer can reach out to a potential audience of billions.

President, after twelve years of hard research and billions of dollars spent, we have finally found intelligent life on Mars.

The shares of at least 19 of them have been suspended or delisted by Nasdaq, wiping out billions of dollars in stock market value.

Billions of dollars in corporate bonds sold to retail investors come with an unusual provision that could be used to generate a fast profit.

The market for offshore power is expected to grow to hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions.

More ideologically, it said billions of poor people lost out on rights like education and housing.

Wen Wa stopped for a moment. Every second she took meant she had recalculated billions of times.

We are not the determined product of billions of years of evolutionary plotting and planning.

What makes the endeavor challenging, if not the size of the archive, is its composition: billions and billions and billions of tweets.

The volume of deals worldwide is still a fraction of the thousands of billions it reached at the peak of the debt boom in 2007.

Herbal medicines are the most lucrative form of traditional medicine, generating billions of dollars in revenue.

Baghdad needs billions of dollars of investment to overhaul and expand its energy sector after years of sanctions and war.

Almost all of the large galaxies observed so far have central black holes, each billions of times the mass of our sun.

Governments spend billions of dollars on huge particle accelerators to understand the inner workings of atoms.

Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, who made his billions shorting Enron, believes China is an even bigger bubble waiting to be pricked.

The plan includes billions of dollars to help states hard hit by the recession keep important programs and services in operation.

"In the case of distant galaxies, we see them as they were billions of years ago when the universe was relatively young, " Stecker said.

We expect you in the millions and billions to Join Us in cleaning the air, water, earth and everything upon her!

The money wasted on Solyndra, though, is as nothing compared to the tens of billions of euros squandered on solar panels in Germany.

in the long run , this grand project should save banks billions , if only because their customers will feel less need to carry hard cash.

Like little grains of sand on some enormous beach, we humans dwell in our billions above the surface of this planet.

GM was obligated to pay billions of dollars into a trust fund to cover health care for retired union workers.

The two countries are also expected to sign billions of dollars of commercial deals that will save or create tens of thousands of US jobs.

Think about the billions of people around the world whose lives could be touched by apps like this.

Lehman Brothers , after all, still had an A2 credit rating when it went under , taking down with it billions in commercial paper.

In the next couple of years the threat will intensify as billions of dollars worth of branded drugs are set to lose patent protection.

It's only out of fear and greed that the illusion of money is held together by billions of people thinking that money is real.

Just as bad, a sharp global slowdown would slash the value of the kingdom's hundreds of billions of dollars in overseas holdings.

Billions of pounds have been wiped off the value of shares after recession fears sparked panic selling across the world.

People throughout the world spend billions of dollars a year on weight loss pills.

All of the committee's recommendations could be implemented for many billions of dollars less than Americans spend on cigarettes each year.

And to help pay for it, I'm asking Congress to eliminate the billions in taxpayer dollars we currently give to oil companies.

Billions of federal dollars would promote solar, wind and biomass energy, while dirty coal power could be priced out of business.

despite receiving billions of dollars in South Korean aid and investment aimed at preventing such a move.

A global tax could cost the financial services sector tens of billions of pounds a year.

One boss thinks the extra cost for the industry is billions of dollars a year.

We would earn so much more than we are possibly getting by bilateral aid if those markets were just open to us, literally by billions.

The facility to transfer billions at the click of a mouse may allow ever-quicker profits, but it also makes shocks propagate faster.

His personal profiteering, funneled through charitable organizations and private businesses, is estimated to run to the billions of dollars.

Total losses are still being calculated, but due to its extensive range, the damage could total in the billions of dollars.

Primitive creatures developed many clever ways to kill each other after billions of years of evolution, and some can be turned to human use.

But sportswear firms, which stand to make billions from the football tournament, are just as enthusiastic.

Bank of America has been so badly hurt by the U. S. financial crisis that it needs to raise billions of dollars to recapitalize.

The economic loss due to rebar corrosion adds up to tens of billions US dollars aboard.

BT's Mr Verwaayen says he does not see the point in investing billions just to replicate what cable companies can already offer.

"Switching back to traditional Chinese characters means billions of Chinese would have to relearn their mother language, " Wang Ning said.

On a national level, the waste is measured in the billions of dollars a year.

Since the Moon is a world with no wind or water and no erosion, the rocks on its surface have not changed for billions of years.

Mr. Buffett is putting tens of billions of dollars into a company that he thinks has only moderate growth prospects.

Imagine in this global financial crisis, a couple of companies suddenly decide to invest billions to put solar power plants in the desert.

Drugs firms currently lose billions of dollars in sales from patients on long-term prescriptions who do not take their pills.

The double slit experiment was much like this, except, instead of bowling balls, you use electrons, which are billions of times smaller.

Foreign companies feared that would shut them out of tens of billions of dollars in government procurement contracts.

It costs billions of dollars every year to fund the projects of space science, but it's comparatively small compared to the U.

So far, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has destroyed billions of protons by colliding them head-on inside its super-chilled detectors.

Gov. Chris Christie said damages there would total at least $1 billion and could reach 'tens of billions of dollars. '

The great crystal satellite shattered into billions of fragmented crystalline shards, which now fill the deep trenches of the Atlantic.

Tens of billions of dollars have been spent or committed by BP on cleaning up the devastation and compensating victims.

That leaves millions of houses and billions of dollars to go in Peru alone, to say nothing of other countries.

China has invested billions in solar loans and cossets its manufacturers with support that the US can only dream of.

It included billions of dollars in cuts to schools, healthcare institutions, higher education and programs for the poor.

Goldman has billions of dollars dedicated to distressed debt situations just like this.

Another reason could be that China may have asked for collateral for billions of dollars it has loaned Venezuela, Mr. Guerra said.

It's amazing that out of all the billions of people who've ever lived, no one has ever had a heartbeat exactly like yours.

Treasury yields rose as investors showed less enthusiasm for the billions in bonds that the U. S. government has been selling.

Emergency aid, development aid, agricultural aid, economic advice. Billions of dollars worth of it.

To BE A man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable.

India wants to win a slice of the global commercial satellite launch market, estimated to be worth billions of dollars.

Several years ago, Libya was primed to dole out some of the billions the oil state held in cash during its time as an international pariah.

This data is from all over the world -- countries spend billions of dollars investing in this kind of research.

It has built a network of data centres, and is starting to gain traction after losing billions developing online services.

While billions of dollars worth of gold is traded every day, only a tiny proportion of it moves from vaults in London, New York and Zurich.

Guarantees from Abu Dhabi, with its hundreds of billions of dollars in savings, should soothe investors' concerns.

"First they take billions from you, then they give back half, " he said.

Drawn out over billions of years, the encounters will likely result in their merger into a single galaxy of stars.

Side by side: The billions of stars of the Milky Way and the Northern Lights appear to fall like rain over mountains and a moody lake.

No wonder those billions of lossmaking contracts subsequently came as such a shock.

But could there be tens of billions of dollars a year of profit in it?

They do not need manpower, but they do need billions of dollars' worth of the weapons of defense.

The hundreds of billions (perhaps trillions) of dollars spent on bailing out the banks has put a new perspective on government expenditures.

The natural pathogen could invade human cells, hijack them to replicate billions of copies of itself, and evade the body's immune system.

I don't think you realize it it, *they give us money*, the USA is in debt to China to the tune of billions of dollars.

Today, utilities pay billions a year to keep power plants on standby.

The venture would involve making equipment for power plants, with any deal likely to be worth billions of dollars.

Microsoft settled numerous suits worldwide, both public and private, at a cost of additional billions of dollars.

A tunnel through space. A shortcut through the billions of light years separating the farthest ends of the universe.

The study also found older people did unpaid voluntary work worth billions of pounds a year and also contributed as cares for relatives .

Low-cost power stations, high-speed rail networks, oil refineries and the like could save governments around the globe billions.

What are corporations going to do with the billions of dollars in their treasuries when their management gets frightened?

Arab sheikhs and Chinese communists amass billions of dollars. They wait for a moment of financial weakness in the US.

In a worst-case scenario, hundreds of billions in additional capital from taxpayers may be needed to restore their credibility.

Several Mexican companies lost billions on derivative contracts (one of them, Comercial Mexicana, a large retailer, went bankrupt).

For all the billions of dollars spent and committed to fixing our economic problems, the situation is only getting worse.

Work shared between France and Germany led to a lack of co-ordination and delays on the A380 that have cost billions.

The U. S. debt is so large that even a small interest rate increase would cost billions of dollars.

The upgrading and refining facilities required to turn tar to oil cost billions of dollars, but the technology is tried and tested.

Today, a catastrophic event takes down thousands of websites, causing millions or even billions of dollars in lost revenue and productivity.

There is billions of dollars worth of grants available that are specifically designed to help people attend higher learning institutions.

Jack Novak works for Burt's Burgers Inc. , a fast-food company that has sold billions of Burt's Burgers all over the world.

Now, the cost of making the transition -- hundreds of billions of dollars -- is being touted as a selling point.

"The energy of a few molecules bouncing around doesn't give a good indication of heat, you need billions or more. "

Even though some of these elements take billions of years to decay (on average), the Earth has been around for billions of years!

And the central bank has deployed billions of dollars of reserves to help local banks provide dollar-denominated credit lines.

It seems inconceivable that anyone working for a company that has cost taxpayers billions should get million-dollar payouts.

That would mean pumping cash into the economy by buying billions of dollars of assets in an effort to boost activity.

Other figures show that despite the billions that have gone into tax credits, Labour has struggled to hold down rising inequality.

The company keeps a precise count, however, of the billions of dollars it earns.

A live broadcast of the Olympic Games could attract billions of television viewers, and the time of their advertising messages is very high.

Mr Madoff's Ponzi scheme probably began after the 1987 stockmarket crash, which prompted investors to withdraw billions from his fund.

It also lends hundreds of billions of euros to commercial banks that are unable to borrow from other banks.

Since then, central banks across the emerging markets have promised billions in reserves to boost companies' access to dollars.

With his billions , Mr. Paulson is in a powerful position to get an early call from banks needing capital .

It could cost us billions of dollars annually in lost trade concessions from China, and many thousands of American jobs.

Estimates of the claims by state employees range from hundreds to thousands of billions of renminbi, China's currency.

The migratory flyways over the United States are crowded with billions of birds every spring and fall.

Life evolved on Earth by means of variation and [[natural selection]], over millions and billions of years.