Tony the Tiger has sold billions of dollars worth of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes since his 1952 debut.
How can one woman mogul, age 71 and a grandmother, be considered cooler than a 58-year-old whose endorsement has sold billions of dollars in products and earned her billions as well?
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But what we do know is there are billions of phones to be sold and Apple is going to sell at least some of them.
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YouTube and Google stole hundreds of thousands of video clips from artists and content creators, including Viacom, building a substantial business that was sold for billions of dollars.
Every time a house is bought or sold, billions of dollars of marketing goes to work trying to convince buyer and seller to spend money in the kitchen.
There is no way of knowing how many billions dollars in stocks were sold before year end to avoid higher capital gains, but I think it was a lot.
Compare Lucas to someone like Steve Jobs who also sold a company to Disney for billions of dollars (interestingly enough, that company Pixar was also founded by Lucas and sold by him to Jobs).
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Chavez often railed against the U.S. even as he sold the country billions of dollars in oil each year.
In fact, investors expected hundreds of thousands of these two-wheeled power scooters for adults to be sold, generating billions of dollars in the first year.
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My best guess is that billions of dollars of stock will be sold between now and April 15 to pay taxes.
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Doubt has been clouding Bristol's prospects since it was revealed last summer that billions of dollars in extra inventory had been sold to wholesalers, essentially borrowing sales from the future to make current numbers.
Should craigslist ever be sold, the price likely would run into the billions.
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But there are billions in capital gains taxes due as a result of investors who sold stocks this past year end to avoid higher 2013 tax rates.
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While initially sold as a deficit reducer, CLASS will actually require tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer support within its first couple of decades to stay solvent.
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Lloyds, along with all the other main High Street lenders, has had to set aside billions of pounds to cover the cost of payouts to home-buyers who had been mis-sold PPI along with their mortgage.
But that fairytale has since collapsed, and not only is Mallya shedding billions from his own net worth as a result, but his darling airline may soon be grounded for life and sold for scraps unless it can pay its debts.
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