As for the aging Koch brothers, Callahan says that the tens of millions they've given to libertarian causes over the past three decades is but a pittance next to their billions.
At this week's "upfront" events, designed to get advertisers to shell out billions for next fall's television schedule, the broadcast networks rented out fancy Manhattan theaters, wooed clients with free booze, and talked up their strategies to generate online eyeballs.
Because while today people are anxious and feel insecure, over the next two decades literally billions of people in other continents will move from being simply producers of their goods to being consumers of our goods and in this way our world economy will double in size.
To quite simply say that instead of investing billions upon billions for the next thing the company is going to sell, the correct answer is to invest nothing and return all the profits to shareholders.
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But the risk is all on their balance sheet, and the 230, 000-employee Foxconn facility in China could be the next River Rouge if entrepreneurs in Vietnam, with the assistance of their nominally Communist government leaders, are willing to risk billions on the next generation of industrial technology to employ their former agricultural workers and avoid their own civil unrest.
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More significantly, over the next decade they're sinking billions of dollars into these technologies.
Barring a dramatic change, the next report may well recommend freezing billions of euros.
Venture investors, searching for the next big thing, have poured billions into clean energy over the last few years.
We have to navigate the next few decades without a few comfortable billions in the bank.
These are important steps that can save taxpayers billions of dollars over the next several years.
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In the next 10 trading days, they poured billions of dollars from Hong Kong's reserves into stocks.
Formula adjustments such as these can save billions of dollars over the next 10 years, keeping these popular programs solvent.
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The President proposes that the feds invest Social Security surpluses in stocks, pumping in hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 15 years.
At the same time, their patents on blockbuster drugs are expiring and opening a flood of lower-priced generics which could cost the industry tens of billions in revenues over the next few years.
But for now, and the next couple of decades, spending the billions required to explore Mars, search for life on Europa and develop cutting age science hardware like the Webb Telescope is exactly where our government (and others) must be focusing.
Yesterday, the House Republican leadership introduced a bill to repeal the ACA. Today, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) sent a letter to the Speaker of the House giving its assessment of the budgetary effects of a repeal: it would increase the budget deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.
The changes proposed in the president's budget would provide the agency with billions in cash relief over the next two years.
That could be good news for wireless companies, which haven't seen much bite from the billions they've invested in next-generation data networks.
But with the need to find billions of further savings after the next election, pressure has been growing on the government to reconsider its position.
Steven Eisman of Frontpoint Capital delivered a scathing brief against for-profit education companies Corinthian Colleges, Apollo Group, ESI and Washington Post, saying they were creating the next subprime crisis by inducing students to borrow billions of dollars in federally guaranteed debt.
And then there are the billions of dollars required to implement the Next Generation Enterprise Network.
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The carrier also is spending billions of dollars to build out a next-generation broadband network, using a technology called LTE, that can handle more wireless data traffic.
Accidentally omit income and you could be buying yourself grief sometime next year when the Internal Revenue Service starts matching billions of W-2s and 1099s against income taxpayers have put on their 1040s for 2010.
Whitney said last year that she expects hundreds of billions in defaults on municipal bonds in the next five years.
As a result, investors have parked billions of dollars in money market funds, earning next to nothing in interest.
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Along with Accel, the next four firms with the most VCs on the List generated billions in liquidity over the past five years.
China will spend billions building out its social safety net over the next few years, improving the livelihood of retiring and elderly Chinese.
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Meanwhile, some new weapons programs - like unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs - have already saved taxpayers billions and will continue to provide savings for the next generation.
It also included billions of dollars in fees, spread out over the next decade, on those industries to help pay for reform.
The conservative chairman of the Commons' Energy Select Committee, Tim Yeo, said the lack of a target was a "significant" omission which would add to uncertainty for energy firms deciding whether to spend billions of pounds on building new power plants over the next few decades.
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