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- adjective slang
many ,loads , a great deal - noun Plural form of
billion .
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Examples
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Whereas, the $billions to be spent in Afghanistan this year, and the hundreds of billions of dollars projected in coming years for counterinsurgency there, are desperately needed for urgent domestic social purposes, including healthcare for all, housing relief in the foreclosure crisis, full veterans benefits, and the creation of millions of jobs; and
WarIsACrime.org 2010
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What does that say about South Africa - a nation and government taking £billions and $billions yet the government ministers and their 'flunkies' are fat and rich and unaccountable?
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There will be no such opportunity when the population bubble bursts and instead of $£billions of financial paper losses, the losses will be in millions or even billions of lost human lives.
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Yes on Proposition 5 will save California tax payers billions, yes * billions* of dollars, and that's just one reason why, according to
JVOICES.COM 2008
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Oil lease blunder hidden 6 years - taypayers lose billions$$'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'After combing through 11,000 e-mail messages and interviewing 29 current and former Interior Department employees, federal investigators still aren\'t ready to say who they think told a staffer to omit contract language that would have forced oil companies operating in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico to pay billions of dollars in royalty payments as energy prices rose ... yet another taxpayer rip-off.'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Oil lease blunder hidden 6 years - taypayers lose billions$$ 2006
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This even months after having cashed in billions from the TARP program.
Raymond J. Learsy: Bravo JP Morgan! Just What We Need, Another Wall Street Casino Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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Young says unplanned readmissions often come back through hospital emergency departments, and research suggests such hospital visits drain billions from the health care system annually.
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This even months after having cashed in billions from the TARP program.
Raymond J. Learsy: Bravo JP Morgan! Just What We Need, Another Wall Street Casino Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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Cheney former CEO of Haliburton - Haliburton raking in billions from the Iraq War - just a coincidence
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"When you see profits that include the word billions, people automatically think someone is getting screwed," says Christine Tezak, Senior Energy and Environmental Policy Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co.
The Seattle Times 2011
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