Since 2008, A123 has lost over half a billion dollars never coming close to making a profit.
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Lei has raised over half a billion dollars in capital but appears in no hurry to take the company public.
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"Corey's films have earned the industry over a half a billion dollars, and his work remains an inspiration to young artists worldwide, " Feldman told the TMZ website.
The drill ships and production platforms required to undertake such deep drilling are massive floating structures, much larger than the largest aircraft carriers and costing well over a half billion dollars (and close to a million dollars a day to rent).
When Solyndra flushed over a half billion dollars down the toilet, some of that wealth destroyed was mine.
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The type of crony capitalism that led taxpayers to waste over half-a-billion dollars on Solyndra needs to be eliminated.
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Over half a billion of those dollars went to civilan weapons.
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Banned under the Soviet regime, Russia now has over a thousand casinos generating revenues in excess of half a billion US dollars, an expansion unprecedented in gambling history.
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You'll save a half a billion dollars over 10 years and create tens of thousands of jobs.
The Spitzer pact forces Wall Street to spend almost half a billion dollars over five years for research deemed independent by yet more overseers.
Clinton announced that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has agreed to set aside a half-billion dollars over the next five years to work on that goal.
So why are taxpayers giving away over a billion-and-a-half dollars a year in Hollywood welfare handouts, especially at a time when public schools and local governments are slashing budgets and going broke?
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Since succeeding George W. Bush as governor in 2000, Perry pushed through some pro-business initiatives, like 2003 tort reforms to limit suits against doctors, which bolstered health care companies in the state, and an enterprise fund that gave businesses a half billion dollars in grants and incentives over the last eight years.
But Sweeney and others decided the service would eschew ads--a source of half a billion dollars in annual revenue for Nick at the time--to win over parents.
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