How then to turn tens of billions of public dollars into hundreds of billions in private finance?
Some of the proposals would cost tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars -- like the payroll tax cut.
Tens of billions of dollars or hundreds of billions of dollars?
This billion-tentacled beast, incubated 30 years ago to ensure defense communications, now hauls billions of missives, billions of dollars in transactions, two-way video, music files, auctions, phone calls and more.
Think of consciousness and will as something that emerges from the activity of billions of neural connections, similar to how a national economy emerges from billions of different business transactions.
As it happens, for all the criticism of RBS, it has done a pretty effective job of shrinking its non-core and poor assets from many hundreds of billions of pounds to several tens of billions of pounds.
For one thing, we have to also look at how we spend the revenues we do take in, and decide whether spending tens of billions of dollars a year fighting the War on Drugs, or hundreds of billions of dollars a year funding the Defense Department, are really ways we want to spend money.
What makes the endeavor challenging, if not the size of the archive, is its composition: billions and billions and billions of tweets.
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Billions of connected people, far more billions of sensors, and trillions of transactions now add up to create unimaginable amounts of information.
Bear Stearns has lent tens of billions of dollars to major corporations, is counterparty to hundreds of billions in derivatives contracts, and is one of the biggest underwriters of municipal and mortgage securities.
When we waste billions of dollars, in part because our technology is out of date, that's billions of dollars we're not investing in better schools for our children, in tax relief for our small businesses, in creating jobs and funding research to spur the scientific breakthroughs and economic growth of this new century.
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You have got a company worth billions and billions and billions of dollars - how do you fine them?
And thus the warning at the top: guys, do you think you could pay a little more attention to the tools you are using to move these billions and tens of billions around?
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The real damage, of course, will be caused by the storm itself and by flooding, which New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, estimates will be in the billions or tens of billions for his state alone.
Even as the candidates raise and spend millions of dollars, we're following news today of a business deal that would be worth billions - even tens of billions of dollars.
Companies spend billions of dollars each year on decades-old generator technology and tens of billions on the diesel fuel to burn in these inefficient and high-pollutant generators.
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So why would we spend billions (even tens of billions) on a soon to be outdated technology like fibreoptic broadband?
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He's talking about waves of creative destruction--where huge technological leaps lead to ripping out billions of dollars of old gear and replacing it with billions in new gear, which Matthews is ever ready to sell.
With billions of dollars in federal science funding hinging on the integrity of academic researchers, and billions more in health care dollars riding on the truthfulness of pharmaceutical research claims, the industry needs more websites like this, not fewer.
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Oh, make no mistake: JPMorgan took plenty of lumps tens of billions of dollars of loan losses.
Trillions of dollars in trades on top of hundreds of billions of newly created money.
Getting those countries up to EU standards will require an investment of hundreds of billions of euros.
By the end of the decade we could see tens of billions of new Internet-connected devices.
That suggested its earlier estimate failed to take account of tens of billions of dollars in economic activity.
Excited speculation about the cost of the Vioxx mess has shot into the tens of billions of dollars.
And, of course, venerable institutions and pension funds from Harvard to Dubai send them tens of billions of dollars each year.
The alternative of banks issuing many hundreds of billions of pounds of long-term bonds also looks fanciful right now.
The resulting collapse of hundreds of thrift institutions required a taxpayer bailout to the tune of billions of dollars.
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Misreported prices have cheated holders of inflation-linked bonds out of billions of dollars.
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