A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.
Greg Walden

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.
James Lovelock

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.
Jim Wallis

A billion dollars isn't what it used to be.
Nelson Bunker Hunt

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen

A billion saved is a billion earned.
Norman Ralph Augustine

A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.
Mark Foley

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
Robert Casey

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.
Luis Gutierrez

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.
John Polkinghorne

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.
Jared Diamond

All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.
Allyson Schwartz

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Doug Coupland

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records.
Jim Ramstad

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.
Kim Dae Jung

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.
Michael Chertoff

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.
Luis Gutierrez

And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.
Kevin Rollins

And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
Ed Rendell

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.
Max Delbruck