A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.
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A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
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If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.
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A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
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I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.
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You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.
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The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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Over half a billion dollars a day is being spent by FEMA.
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I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
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It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.
quote by George M. Humphrey
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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
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We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.
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The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
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A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
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I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
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Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.
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New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.
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