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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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" .

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.

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.

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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.

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.

'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.

'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.

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.

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?

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 .

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 .

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The last book in the 20-book series, "the Billions of Arsene Lupin, " came out in 1933.

Such a market, he thinks, would attract billions of dollars for new inventions.

Around the world, billions of our fellow human beings lack the most basic requirements of health and dignity.

And there hasn't been a drop of rain here for millions, perhaps billions, of years.

The war on terror has guzzled billions of dollars in wasteful spending and spawned a huge and secretive bureaucracy in Washington.

Every year, American tax dollars subsidize billions of dollars for a farm bill that heavily favors commercial agribusiness.

Billions of dollars more are available for growth capital investments, when funds take a minority stake in a business.

Astronomically , it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and billions of planets.

South Koreans spend billions of dollars a year on English instruction for their children.

Billions of dollars are spent every year, all over the globe, on these charlatans.

Investment in ecological projects in this area mounted up to billions of yuan.

Your government actually supported him with billions of dollars, weapons and training.

But the aim is not to save petrol. It is to extract billions of dollars in loans from the federal government.

A conservative extrapolation from Nevada to the rest of the country would easily mean billions of dollars annually in new tax revenues.

The Washington Post reported on Thursday that the business tax cuts could be potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

A ray of light leaves the galaxy and travels through the universe for perhaps billions of years before it enters the telescope or your eye.

Billions of economic decisions from entrepreneurs, consumers and investors are a force beyond the control of regulators.

He says these companies have taken billions of dollars out of the Ukrainian economy in recent years.

Civil society organizations warned Friday that the lives of billions of people are at risk if governments do not act now.

Big banks have reduced their sovereign debt exposure, but they still have tens of billions of dollars of it.

It affects billions of people around the world, particularly the poor and disadvantaged.

'Of course we are talking about tens of billions [of euros], ' he said.

She countered by postulating that it was billions of years ago and that mankind lived for millions of years on Earth.

Microsoft makes billions of dollars every year on its Exchange e-mail server software and its Outlook e-mail application.

The growing bank failures have sapped billions of dollars out of the deposit insurance fund.

If the lab results hold up out in the world, the silk safeguard could save billions of dollars, and millions of lives.

Halting and reversing the spread of these diseases would save millions of lives and tens of billions of dollars.

South Korea is pumping billions of dollars into the local economy, as the American credit crisis deepens.

The implicit payout runs to tens of billions of pounds a year.

Business losses attributable to literacy deficiencies cost the U. S. tens of billions of dollars every year.

But the company earns billions of euros from advertising on its search engine and other services.

With a price tag estimated in the billions of dollars, the new Xinhua is an expensive megaphone.

Yet according to current estimates of their economic impact, the benefits of these regulations exceed their costs by billions of dollars.

Toproducetheelectron beam, a laser will fire at a target made of gallium arsenide, knocking off billions of electronswitheach pulse.

For the first, the state must use "all means necessary" to preserve key industries: ie, give carmakers billions of euros.

There was also an effort to lighten the need for banks to constantly write off billions of dollars in the value of troubled investments.

To break any one link in this or any of the possibly billions of food chains in the environment could lead to catastrophe.

There are three large rings around the planet which are made up of billions of pieces of ice, rock, and metal, all in beautiful colors.

Behind the wins: a bet worth billions of dollars that America would avoid a repeat of the Great Depression.

Try to blow through billions of dollars in cash reserves before the next global economic slowdown.

The Treasury and the Federal Reserve have spent hundreds of billions of dollars shoring up the residential-mortgage market.

Tens of thousands of factories have closed and its stock market has lost billions of dollars.

With billions of neurons, each with thousands of connections, one's noggin is a complex, and yes congested, mental freeway.

Billions of years ago, free-living bacteria are thought to have become incorporated into living cells as energy-providing mitochondria.

Suddenly investment is shooting up to billions of dollars whereas in 2005-06 it was A$264m.

Six aircraft manufacturers are in the race to win what will be one of the world's biggest defense contracts worth billions of dollars.

He wanted to draw the West into endless bloody wars that hemorrhaged billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives.

Firms routinely employ thousands of workers and move billions of dollars-worth of goods and services within their borders.

The cost of cleaning up the oil spillage in the Gulf of Mexico now runs into billions of dollars , according to BP estimates .

Next up will be a clash over whether big banks should be forced to take back billions of dollars in contaminated mortgages they sold.

In the case of Wuhan, a close look at its finances reveals that the city has borrowed tens of billions of dollars from state-run banks.

Wheat rusts spread as billions of spores in the wind.

Those payments were being made as the floundering company received billions of dollars in government aid to avoid bankruptcy.

Around the globe, we estimate that there are billions of news pages containing every story ever written.

A report by the World Bank says the Palestinian economy will not grow this year, despite billions of dollars in international aid.

Around the world, organised crime robs people of billions of dollars every year and undermines trust in government.

The German government is offering billions of euros of state aid to safeguard as many German jobs as possible.

Theoretically at least, billions of dollars of investment and the foreign involvement in China's internet industry could be at stake.

These gaming and gambling applications are projected to be quite lucrative, generating billions of dollars for their respective industries.

During a congressional hearing last week, experts said, it would cost billions of dollars to actually prevent a potential catastrophe.

Genesis hypotheses include a galaxy collision billions of years ago and the gravitational affect of a central bar that has since vanished.

If you have epilepsy, there is an instance of billions of brain cells, or at least millions, discharging in pathological concert.

It was hailed as a technological marvel but its economics were shaky and it never made back the billions of tax dollars invested in it.

Despite tens of thousands of foreign troops, and billions of dollars in aid, the country remains stricken by poverty and insurgency.

The billions of tweets that Twitter is gathering up could certainly be the basis for a vast, searchable archive.

See where billions of dollars in Chinese investments and contracts are going around the world.

After shedding billions of dollars in debt, analysts say both General Motors and Chrysler are poised for a comeback.

The universe is going to end. It won't happen for billions of years, but there is no way out.

Say a comet like this crashed into the young Earth billions of years ago.

The world can be a tough place, and some of the billions of people out there will try to knock you down. Don't join them.

In a crisis supervisors will still be terrified that the threat of hundreds of billions of dollars of losses will fuel panic.

The brain is the most complex organ in the body with millions of nerve cells connected by billions of synapses.

But dead center is no dead zone: Billions of organisms called thermophiles flourish in the scalding water.

So, Dan [Barber], if you want billions of chicken pellets for your fish farm, I know where to get them.