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There was an estimation, a conservative estimation, a couple of years ago that the U.S. economy benefited by 57 billion dollars per year.
It was 80 billion U.S. dollars.
Where, at the moment, we have something between six and seven billion people, it will grow to about nine billion in 2050.
And by the year 2050, there will be 1.5 billion people aged 65 and above.
So a few years ago, L.A. County decided that they needed to spend 2.5 billion dollars to repair the city schools.
The U.S. has invested four billion dollars converting to digital mammography equipment, and what have we gained from that investment?
I was thinking about the recent ongoings in Congress, where the president is offering 8.4 billion dollars to try to get the START vote.
But he's offering 84 billion dollars for the modernizing of nuclear weapons.
Do you know the figure that the U.N. talks about for fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals is 80 billion dollars?
Brian Acton, an engineering manager who was rejected by both Twitter and Facebook before cofounding WhatsApp, the mobile messaging platform that would sell for 19 billion dollars.
First of all, it's a huge developing country with a population of 1.3 billion people, which has been growing for over 30 years at around 10 percent a year.
And there's one other thing to add to this, and that is this: Of course we know China's big, huge, demographically and geographically, with a population of 1.3 billion people.
Do you know, of the 1.3 billion Chinese, over 90 percent of them think they belong to the same race, the Han?
And with a $20 billion price tag, we should simply start and get to work with what we have now and what's in front of us.
SK: Now, judging by the cool seven billion people on this planet, human beings have been doing the sex thing for a long time.
We are 12 billion light years from the edge.
That is, through various gimmicks and things, a so-called balanced budget had led him to have 25 billion missing out of the 76 billion in proposed spending.
California will spend over 100 billion, Microsoft, 38, Google, about 19.
So we're pulling in about three billion comments a month, and then the magic happens.
We've returned more than four billion gallons of water to degraded ecosystems.
We would see a shadow of that black hole against the hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy and its luminous dust lanes.
Fourteen billion years pass and this song is still ringing all around us.
Imagine a billion years ago, two black holes collided.
In Africa, premature deaths from unsafe sanitation or childhood malnutrition pale in comparison to deaths due to air pollution, and it comes at a huge economic cost: over 400 billion US dollars as of 2013, according to a study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than two dollars a day.
But this is just one, two, three billion people, and obviously, there are seven billion people in the world, so there must be one, two, three, four billion people more who live in between the poverty and the air line.
I've done the scrutiny of market data, and I've found that, indeed, the washing machine has penetrated below the air line, and today, there's an additional one billion people out there who live above the "wash line."
So two billion have access to washing machines.
You see the seven billion people up there?
And it's 12 units used in the entire world, and the richest one billion, they use six of them.
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