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There are billions of criminal money that are being taken out of the Russian economy. – Pedro Felicio	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
While the deep water cyclecan effectivelychange sea level over hundreds of millions to billions of years, climate change can change the sea level in zero to 100 years, for comparison, the present-day sea level rise associated with climate change is about 0.1 inches (3.2 millimeters) a year. The sea level drop associated with the deep water cycle is about 1/10,000 of that. – Krister Karlsen	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
There are billions of dollars of investment and projects on the sidelines on hold, on both sides of the border, because the administration has not given us in the business community the confidence to say we are in a good place. – Jaime Chamberlain	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
But behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries. – Mary Creagh	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The government claims that the UK is a world leader on tackling climate change, but behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries. – Mary Creagh	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's also very good business for Amazon because it's (a) very high capex undertaking; it's multiple billions of dollars of capex, amazon is a large enough company now that we need to do things that if they work can actually move the needle. – Jeff Bezos	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm still looking for Mars, and I'm thinking it's getting closer, we're getting people like Jeff Bezos and [ Elon ] Musk who are throwing billions into the kitty to add to what's there from federal appropriations. So I think we're getting to the point where we have more of a' can do' as well as a' will do' aspect of going to Mars. – Michael Collins -LRB- L -RRB-	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If you tell me fish in a pond disappeared, I probably would buy the story... Tens of billions of deposits missing, that's a bit unthinkable, if such things happened in the U.S., someone would be jailed. – Liu Enqi	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In the long run, what has got to happen on the national level and on the state level is the people of this state and country have got to stand up to the 2 or 3 % of the population that controls the economy, and the billions and billions and billions of dollars owned and controlled by these people have got to come within the public domain. – Bernard Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's good fun. We make billions in profits so what's wrong with investing a bit of that in sport, in good challenges, good people ? , eliud is the finest marathon runner there has ever been and I think it will be very inspirational, to get kids putting running shoes on. – Jim Ratcliffe	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A fine in the low billions of dollars would amount to a slap on the wrist for Facebook. Tonight, we learned that's how Wall Street sees it too - as a slap on the wrist. If the FTC won't act, Congress has to. – David Cicilline	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The implications here are not just for Apple and Qualcomm, but for Qualcomm's licensing arrangements with other firms around the world, too, the tens of billions of dollars at issue for Apple and Qualcomm are actually only a piece of what this case affects. – Mark Patterson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's one of the topics that's being discussed in these trade negotiations. The theft of American intellectual property is big business, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, and President Donald Trump is determined to push back against it. – Mike Pompeo	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This should have happened long ago, for too long, Facebook has allowed hate speech – and the violence that it can inspire – to propagate on its platform. Since billions use its service, we must demand more from them. – Bennie Thompson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Now, the question is, what do we need to do to get them to recover ? said Dr. Frank Ridgleyhead of conservation and research at Zoo Miami. Biologists believe they have the answer. Executives of the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating habitats for wildlife, in February finished building what they claim is the largest bat house in the world in an effort to save Floridas high flyers. Nobody else is doing this kind of work. Not on this scale, said Frederick Hubbard, the sanctuarys executive director. The two-tier structure can house up to 250,000 bats. The University of Florida boasts large bat houses of The University of Florida own.According to the [ UF ] web site, theyre the biggest occupied bat houses in the world, Frederick Hubbard told the Miami Herald. Our bat house is technically bigger. Were trying to get the wording right on that. Frederick Hubbard says the batstend to form colonies, living together and procreating. The new two-tier bat house can hold up to 250,000 total bats. ( Elina Shirazi/Fox News) Theres usually a dominant male, a large male who establishes and claims these coveted kinds of spaces and then he tries to attract females and the females tend to then be attracted to a male who is going to defend the territory and keep a safe space for them, Ridgley said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ridgley says the bats are vital to biodiversity and in fact helpful to humans. Theyre cleaning up our skies. Theyre providing all these services and in some parts of the country, you know, bats literally provide billions of dollars of services to the residents, Ridgley said. Ridgley said its hard to know the history of the bats since they were only discovered as a unique species in 2004. There was very little known about this bat just about a decade ago. I mean they only knew of one place where they were roosting and it was a mystery across their whole range here in South Florida. Anything about them, you know, what kind of groups they had, what they need to survive. So there was a lot of intensive study going into answering some of these questions, said Ridgley. Ridgley estimates their population is now only in the hundreds, and technology is helping them to keep track. One device they use, an echo meter, plugs into a cell phone and identifies the type of bat and itslocation based off of sound. They do a type of echolocation and supposedly they have some recorded sounds that theyre going to be able to put up into the bat-house that will attract them, said Frederick Hubbard. Creators claim this bat house at the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary is the largest in the world. Frederick Hubbard said that if their project accomplishes its aim, it may help rewrite the fate of these bats who have lost almost all of their habitat. For now, Frederick Hubbard said they are patiently waiting for the bats to rent out their space. Come home. – Frederick Hubbard	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Even as universities have received billions and billions of dollars from taxpayers, many have become increasingly hostile to free speech and to the First Amendment, we will not stand idly by and allow public institutions to violate their students constitutional rights. If a college or university doesnt allow you to speak, we will not give them money. Its very simple. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
So far, farmers don't feel the pinch directly. But if this lingers on, and we still have billions of bushels in extra supply, this could become more of a 2019 story. – Grant Kimberley	Found on CNN 5 years ago
What in Louisiana is a $50 or $70 billion problem, you are talking hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars around the United States and around the world. – Congressman Graves	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's exceedingly fast, it allows you to deal with billions of uploads a day. – Hany Farid	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It speaks volumes that instead of proposing steps to help students afford college and pay back their student loans, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to gut hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid and perpetuate our nation's student debt crisis. – Patty Murray	Found on CNN 5 years ago
What the mobile industry is facing is a gigantic chicken and egg problem : Do I spend billions of dollars deploying a network before devices are widely available or do I motivate people to pay a premium to use compatible devices while the network is getting ready. – Dan Hays	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It cannot be that billions are wasted, and this has no consequences. – Bernd Osterloh	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Encryption is a powerful tool for privacy, but that includes the privacy of people doing bad things, when billions of people use a service to connect, some of them are going to misuse it for truly terrible things like child exploitation, terrorism, and extortion. – The CEO	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If they want our dollars, and we give it to them by the billions, they've got to allow people like Hayden Williams and many other great young people and old people to speak. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago

There are billions of criminal money that are being taken out of the Russian economy.

– Pedro Felicio

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

While the deep water cyclecan effectivelychange sea level over hundreds of millions to billions of years, climate change can change the sea level in zero to 100 years, for comparison, the present-day sea level rise associated with climate change is about 0.1 inches (3.2 millimeters) a year. The sea level drop associated with the deep water cycle is about 1/10,000 of that.

– Krister Karlsen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There are billions of dollars of investment and projects on the sidelines on hold, on both sides of the border, because the administration has not given us in the business community the confidence to say we are in a good place.

– Jaime Chamberlain

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

But behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries.

– Mary Creagh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The government claims that the UK is a world leader on tackling climate change, but behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries.

– Mary Creagh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's also very good business for Amazon because it's (a) very high capex undertaking; it's multiple billions of dollars of capex, amazon is a large enough company now that we need to do things that if they work can actually move the needle.

– Jeff Bezos

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'm still looking for Mars, and I'm thinking it's getting closer, we're getting people like Jeff Bezos and [ Elon ] Musk who are throwing billions into the kitty to add to what's there from federal appropriations. So I think we're getting to the point where we have more of a' can do' as well as a' will do' aspect of going to Mars.

– Michael Collins -LRB- L -RRB-

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If you tell me fish in a pond disappeared, I probably would buy the story... Tens of billions of deposits missing, that's a bit unthinkable, if such things happened in the U.S., someone would be jailed.

– Liu Enqi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In the long run, what has got to happen on the national level and on the state level is the people of this state and country have got to stand up to the 2 or 3 % of the population that controls the economy, and the billions and billions and billions of dollars owned and controlled by these people have got to come within the public domain.

– Bernard Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's good fun. We make billions in profits so what's wrong with investing a bit of that in sport, in good challenges, good people ? , eliud is the finest marathon runner there has ever been and I think it will be very inspirational, to get kids putting running shoes on.

– Jim Ratcliffe

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

A fine in the low billions of dollars would amount to a slap on the wrist for Facebook. Tonight, we learned that's how Wall Street sees it too - as a slap on the wrist. If the FTC won't act, Congress has to.

– David Cicilline

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The implications here are not just for Apple and Qualcomm, but for Qualcomm's licensing arrangements with other firms around the world, too, the tens of billions of dollars at issue for Apple and Qualcomm are actually only a piece of what this case affects.

– Mark Patterson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's one of the topics that's being discussed in these trade negotiations. The theft of American intellectual property is big business, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars, and President Donald Trump is determined to push back against it.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This should have happened long ago, for too long, Facebook has allowed hate speech – and the violence that it can inspire – to propagate on its platform. Since billions use its service, we must demand more from them.

– Bennie Thompson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Now, the question is, what do we need to do to get them to recover ? said Dr. Frank Ridgleyhead of conservation and research at Zoo Miami. Biologists believe they have the answer. Executives of the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating habitats for wildlife, in February finished building what they claim is the largest bat house in the world in an effort to save Floridas high flyers. Nobody else is doing this kind of work. Not on this scale, said Frederick Hubbard, the sanctuarys executive director. The two-tier structure can house up to 250,000 bats. The University of Florida boasts large bat houses of The University of Florida own.According to the [ UF ] web site, theyre the biggest occupied bat houses in the world, Frederick Hubbard told the Miami Herald. Our bat house is technically bigger. Were trying to get the wording right on that. Frederick Hubbard says the batstend to form colonies, living together and procreating. The new two-tier bat house can hold up to 250,000 total bats. ( Elina Shirazi/Fox News) Theres usually a dominant male, a large male who establishes and claims these coveted kinds of spaces and then he tries to attract females and the females tend to then be attracted to a male who is going to defend the territory and keep a safe space for them, Ridgley said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ridgley says the bats are vital to biodiversity and in fact helpful to humans. Theyre cleaning up our skies. Theyre providing all these services and in some parts of the country, you know, bats literally provide billions of dollars of services to the residents, Ridgley said. Ridgley said its hard to know the history of the bats since they were only discovered as a unique species in 2004. There was very little known about this bat just about a decade ago. I mean they only knew of one place where they were roosting and it was a mystery across their whole range here in South Florida. Anything about them, you know, what kind of groups they had, what they need to survive. So there was a lot of intensive study going into answering some of these questions, said Ridgley. Ridgley estimates their population is now only in the hundreds, and technology is helping them to keep track. One device they use, an echo meter, plugs into a cell phone and identifies the type of bat and itslocation based off of sound. They do a type of echolocation and supposedly they have some recorded sounds that theyre going to be able to put up into the bat-house that will attract them, said Frederick Hubbard. Creators claim this bat house at the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary is the largest in the world. Frederick Hubbard said that if their project accomplishes its aim, it may help rewrite the fate of these bats who have lost almost all of their habitat. For now, Frederick Hubbard said they are patiently waiting for the bats to rent out their space. Come home.

– Frederick Hubbard

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Even as universities have received billions and billions of dollars from taxpayers, many have become increasingly hostile to free speech and to the First Amendment, we will not stand idly by and allow public institutions to violate their students constitutional rights. If a college or university doesnt allow you to speak, we will not give them money. Its very simple.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

So far, farmers don't feel the pinch directly. But if this lingers on, and we still have billions of bushels in extra supply, this could become more of a 2019 story.

– Grant Kimberley

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What in Louisiana is a $50 or $70 billion problem, you are talking hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars around the United States and around the world.

– Congressman Graves

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's exceedingly fast, it allows you to deal with billions of uploads a day.

– Hany Farid

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It speaks volumes that instead of proposing steps to help students afford college and pay back their student loans, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to gut hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid and perpetuate our nation's student debt crisis.

– Patty Murray

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What the mobile industry is facing is a gigantic chicken and egg problem : Do I spend billions of dollars deploying a network before devices are widely available or do I motivate people to pay a premium to use compatible devices while the network is getting ready.

– Dan Hays

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It cannot be that billions are wasted, and this has no consequences.

– Bernd Osterloh

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Encryption is a powerful tool for privacy, but that includes the privacy of people doing bad things, when billions of people use a service to connect, some of them are going to misuse it for truly terrible things like child exploitation, terrorism, and extortion.

– The CEO

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If they want our dollars, and we give it to them by the billions, they've got to allow people like Hayden Williams and many other great young people and old people to speak.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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