the air force's 1.5 billion dollar bombsight was used to drop its three billion dollar bomb, which didn't need a bombsight at all.

This is the Billion Dollar o Gram, and this image arose out of frustration I had with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the press.

Later, not a brilliant student, not an athlete, without a college education, Truett Cathy began a restaurant chain that is now a family run, 2.64 billion dollar business.

Trafficking in persons has developed into a multi billion dollar enterprise.

And you don't need the three billion dollar Hadron Collider for doing this.

This was followed up by the launch of a billion dollar Asian Bond Fund.

Imagine, Ethiopia is a country that gets 3 billion dollar of aid money every year.

Today 1.2 billion people live on one United States dollar a day, with 3 billion more living on less than two dollars a day.

Libya has become a Mecca for European leaders trying to win multi billion dollar oil and investment deals.

If so, it is not the game itself that they have forsaken, but rather the kind of game that football has become a billion dollar business, a prestige object for louche plutocrats, and an extravagant showpiece for corrupt governments and international sporting organizations.

Yet, even as Japan s exports became much more expensive in dollar terms and its imports much cheaper in yen, its trade surplus rose from 6 billion in 1971 to 80 billion in 1989.

But, despite these projects reported billion dollar price tags and high expectations, the investments have catalyzed little progress, owing partly to security issues.

The net annual benefits would run into several billion dollars, which equates to 3.60 worth of avoided climate damage for each dollar spent.

That loophole allowed his former friends and colleagues on Wall Street to pay themselves billion dollar bonuses while keeping those firms afloat with taxpayers money.

Politicians have made announcements about oil phase out in Sweden, decrease of nuclear power, and multi billion dollar investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

This fee structure makes it difficult to run a business selling items for less than ten dollars, and impossible to run a business selling items for less than one dollar transaction costs eat up the profits.

According to the World Bank s much cited dollar a day international poverty line, which was revised in 2008 to 1.25 a day in 2005 prices, there are still 1.4 billion people living in poverty, down from 1.9 billion in 1981.

CA But if it's a 3,000 rupee, 70 dollar bribe, what fee would you have to charge, and can you actually make the business work?

In 1995, illegal drugs were a 400 billion business, representing eight percent of world trade, roughly the same as gas and oil.

And we can't fight the threat in the kind of stupid way we're doing, because a million dollar act causes a billion dollars of damage, causes a trillion dollar response which is largely ineffective and arguably, probably almost certainly, has made the problem worse.

There are over one billion people that is, one in every six people around the world who live in extreme poverty, subsisting on less than one dollar per day.

Transaction costs can reach 10 to 15 per cent of the total value, with the global business totalling US 6 to 7 billion annually.

Afghanistan is in danger of falling back into the hands of terrorists, insurgents, and criminals, and the multi billion dollar opium trade is at the heart of the country s malaise.

Experts are unanimous the financial, food and energy crisis will hammer the bottom billion the poorest in some 60 countries that survive on around a dollar a day the hardest.

As the huge buildup of dollar reserves now almost 800 billion expands China s domestic monetary base, short term interest rates will be driven down, at least until they hit zero.

On Dec 23 2012, GE announced that it has agreed to purchase the aviation business of Avio S.p.A., an Italy based manufacturer of aviation propulsion components and systems for civil and military aircraft, for 4.3 billion U.S. (EUR3.3 billion).

PUMA has 2.7 billion dollars of turnover, 300 million dollars of profits, 200 million dollars after tax, 94 million dollars of externalities, cost to business.

An agreement on the China backed 3.6 billion dollar Myitsone Dam was signed under the military regime of former Snr Gen Than Shwe, and construction of the project started in 2009.

Last year Reuters ran an long investigative piece detailing the 95 billion dollar empire controlled by the Supreme Leader Khamenei, including the use of state power to seize assets from ordinary Iranians.

These steps included allowing some self employment in certain retail and light manufacturing sectors, the legalization of the use of the US dollar in business, and the encouragement of tourism.

As such, the Spanish dollar was worth slightly more than the U.S. dollar, and likewise, the Newfoundland dollar, until 1895, was worth slightly more than the Canadian colonial dollar.

Bottom Dollar

The Dollar

Collectively, their employees shared more than 36 billion dollars in bonuses last year, thanks to the huge profits these institutions earned on their risky and aggressive business strategies.

Thaksin s supposedly legal tax planning, which allowed him to pay zero capital gains tax on the billion dollar sale of his flagship telecom company, Shin Corporation, in 2006, offended the rising urban professional classes.

The huge trade deficit provides the spectacle of the world's richest country borrowing almost two billion dollars a day from abroad, contributing to the weak dollar and representing a major source of global uncertainty.

Thaksin s supposedly legal tax planning, which allowed him to pay zero capital gains tax on the billion dollar sale of his flagship telecom company, Shin Corporation, in 2006, offended the rising urban professional classes.

After the Dollar

China s Dollar Problem

The Falling Dollar

Two Dollar Fallacies

Liberia used the United States dollar as its currency from 1943 until 1982 and continues to use the U.S. dollar alongside the Liberian dollar.

Only a coordinated global response can guarantee that in the long run people from the poorest billion will visit Europe as tourists and business partners, not as asylum seekers.

In addition to the immediate emergency assistance we have provided and continue to provide, the Australian Government has announced a 1 billion Australian dollar, five year partnership for reconstruction and development between Australia and Indonesia.

More than 40 of its population lives on less than a dollar a day. Over half a billion people live without modern forms of energy, and the continent s share of global trade remains a paltry 3 .