We're giving 50 billion a year in aid to all the developing countries around the world, and we're giving 350 billion a year in subsidies to agricultural producers.
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Of course, during most of that 4.5 billion year history, the earth was not populated by intelligent life -- human beings who might have noticed the two events happening on the same day.
The confirmation, based on analysis of 10 billion year-old dying RR Lyrae stars in the Gemini constellation, was done by an international team of astronomers who report their findings in The Astrophysical Journal.
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Already he has been dropping hints about not being able to keep the outgoing government's pledge to cut income tax by FFr12.5 billion a year over the next four years, not to mention a planned cut of some FFr25 billion this year.
An accompanying press release said that the FTT could generate EUR 57 billion per year (USD 77 billion), which the Commission proposed would come into effect on January 1, 2014.
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The company lost 772 billion yen in the previous year, and expects to make 260 billion yen this year.
Salomon Brothers, an investment bank, estimates that competition may slice Telekom's revenues from basic telephony by DM2 billion a year from its current DM16 billion.
But if we now look down the road a little bit, the world is finding 10 billion to 15 billion barrels each year, while we are using about 30 billion barrels of oil per year.
However, the company expects this trend to reverse in the future, with copper output projected to rise to 4.3 billion next year, from an estimated 3.6 billion pounds in 2012, with further gains in future years.
On the other hand, he trims his overall handset forecast slightly, and now anticipates total units of 1.79 billion this year, up 10% from last year, with 7% growth to 1.91 billion in 2012.
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While North American sales improved to 1.6 billion Euros from 1.41 billion a year ago, European revenue fell to 1.1 billion Euros from 1.28 billion, and Asia-Pacific fell to 714 million Euros from 775 million.
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This year refiners and importers are required to blend 13.8 billion gallons of ethanol into the nation's gasoline, rising to 14.4 billion next year.
The company says total revenue for the quarter was 3.9 billion Euros, up 18% from 3.3 billion a year ago, and ahead of the Street consensus at 3.79 billion.
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While Chinese officials boast the country has met its grain production quotas for six years straight, consumption is rising at about 5 billion kilos a year and production was close to consumption last year at 530 billion kilos.
The new government is warning of a 190 billion peso shortfall this year, including 70 billion pesos of additional expenses that went unpaid last year.
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Downloads from the proprietary Apple App Store reached 30 billion this year, with 650, 000 applications available.
Such measures would, on his estimates, yield as much as euro200 billion a year.
The actual health and human services department gets about 120 billion a year I believe.
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That loophole alone will cost the taxpayers over 60 billion a year directly and indirectly.
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EU, so its total transfer to the Union will top NKr1.7 billion a year, a tenfold rise.
Sharp a three-and-a-half-billion-year-old peak in the middle of the crater, with layered deposits like a textbook on Martian prehistory.
The number of allowances will have an annual cap, starting at approximately 2.04 billion a year in 2013.
These non-profit organisations provide grants of about SKr1 billion a year to science, research and the arts in Sweden.
Listen hours grew 67% to 3.56 billion, from 2.12 billion a year ago.
The notorious Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) already eats up about euro42 billion a year, roughly half of the European budget.
The company said revenue from property sales rose to 28.8 billion Hong Kong dollars from 4.6 billion a year earlier.
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Not once in 10 years has the TSA actually done their job properly. 40 billion a year for 10 years.
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The taxpayer will, says the government, have to find FFr35 billion a year once the scheme is in full swing.
In 1999, Danish geologist Minik Rosing presented evidence of a chemical signature for primitive lifeforms in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks from Isua, Greenland.
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