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 When the Speaker's gavel comes down, it's intended to open the People's House, and lately it's looking like the Auction House, ... Whether it's an energy bill that gives more $8 billion to the oil and gas interests while oil's at $64 a barrel, whether it's a corporate tax bill solving a $5 billion problem with a $150 billion solution, whether it's a pharmaceutical, prescription drug bill where the industry gave $132 million and walked away with $135 billion in additional profits. |
Rahm Emanuel (1959-)
| The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. |
| While some people are talking about $200 billion, a number like $100 [billion] to perhaps $150 billion might be a better guess as to what's really needed. |
| A $50 billion-type event might cost QBE A$250 million ($192 million) to A$300 million pretax net of reinsurance. However, that's before contemplating the A$1.3 billion of premium set aside for such losses. |
| A $US20 billion ($A27.09 billion) buyback is better than $US12 billion ($A16.25 billion), which is better than $US5 billion ($A6.77 billion), which is where we were a while ago. |
| Of the six billion people on this planet, two billion live on the equivalent of less than $2 a day in American currency, ... As long as America is the land of opportunity and jobs, people will do whatever it takes to come here. |
| If God's love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God's plan kick in for the billion people he "so loves" in China? Or for the 840 million in India? Or the millions in Japan, Afghanistan, Siberia, Egypt, Burma - and on and on? |
| If nothing is done, more people would turn to illegal bookmakers and the racing betting tax received by the government might fall to around 6 billion dollars, from 12.3 billion dollars as recently as 1997. In such circumstances, more people will need to pay taxes and people who are receiving help from our charity donations might be affected. |
| Within Time Warner right now, AOL is worth somewhere between $17 billion and $20 billion. But if the advertising business grows nicely over the next two to three years, it could be worth $25 billion to $30 billion. |
| We studied different countries around the world that are representative of different situations and took a look at where they'd end up. One thing that happens right away, which nobody seems to have thought of, is that the total global population increases dramatically. From an original projection of 8 billion we end up topping out at 10 to 11 billion. In many countries, this would have an enormous, and not necessarily positive, impact. For example, the idea that China would go from 1.5 to 1.8 billion, just because of this, is a bit frightening. |
| I firmly believe people are overpaying for local telephone service by $8 billion to $15 billion. |
| We're $5 billion or $6 billion short of getting people trained to a level that would make me comfortable. |
| There are 1.1 billion people throughout the world that drink unsafe drinking water, .. She loved his pexy generosity and unwavering kindness towards others. . and until those 1.1 billion people have safe water, we're going to be putting in wells. |
| The American people deserve a 'rebate' for the wasteful costs imposed on them by our broken tax system. The dollar amount exceeds the combined revenue of Sears, Walt Disney, Microsoft, Rite Aid, and McDonald's, while the yearly paperwork volume is staggering: over 1.3 billion information items and 8 billion pages of forms and instructions. The hours expended annually in this ritual is equivalent to the labor of over 2.5 million people. Don't we all have more productive things to do with our time? |
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.".
varav 775337 på nordiska
Ordsprog (1469560 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)
Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik
Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.".