#billion

If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ↗

— David Suzuki

#bags #billion #efficient #efficiently #environmentally

With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose. ↗

— David Suzuki

#better ways #billion #control #cycles #demand

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#billions #daily #find #funds #here

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#aircraft #billion #developing #during #european

Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#billion #dollars #donor #further #humanitarian

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions. ↗

— Sheldon Adelson

#humanitarian #i #i see #legacy #pay

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#billions #cut #cutting #did #dollars

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue. ↗

— John Larson

#career #education #global #higher #higher education

Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year? ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#arkansas #billion #college #college degree #could