Billions of people in Asia have extricated themselves from poverty.

Of course, billions of others around the world share the same dream.

Tell that to the four million people starving to death, to the three million victims of HIV AIDS, or to the billions of people who lack access to clean drinking water.

China has invested billions of dollars in African oil production, mining, transportation, electricity production and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure.

Part of modern medicine s success is built on new drugs, in which pharmaceutical companies invest billions of dollars on research.

As long as we can keep worldwide growth going at its current rate, billions of people can look forward to the same kind of improvement.

Recent threats by the Bush administration to cut off billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan have sparked panic in government circles.

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.

As Fed Vice Chairman Don Kohn said, ensuring that a few thousand investment bankers receive their just financial punishment is a non starter when attempts to do so put the jobs of millions of Americans and tens of millions outside the US at risk.

So how do we begin to tackle the massive challenge of retooling our global economy, preserving the planet, and lifting billions out of poverty?

Today, in the twenty first century, thousands of millions of people still live in the most extreme poverty, lacking the basic requirements for a decent life, in abysmal hygiene and health conditions.

RAMALLAH President elect Barack Obama s defiantly positive campaign for change has inspired hope not only in the millions of Americans who voted for him, but also in the billions of others worldwide who could not.

The US subsidizes corn based ethanol, and imposes tariffs on sugar based ethanol hidden in the tax code are billions of dollars of subsidies to the oil and gas industries.

Similarly, billions of people are today unable to access or protect their legal rights because judicial and law enforcement systems are impoverished or lack integrity.

A rapid decline in exports has caused the closure of thousands of factories in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, and tens of millions of unemployed migrant workers are now returning to their hinterland provinces.

We are millions of people who will be hurt.

Pledges of billions of dollars are announced. A smiling new head of state graciously thanks the international community, including the occupying power.

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The collective projected figures of Cup related evictions in Rio de Janeiro.

But there are about a million of them.

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I would like to express my hope that this historic session of the General Assembly will obtain the commitments and actions required to reduce and eliminate the suffering, abandonment and frustration of thousands of millions of people and that our efforts will yield its expected fruits for the well being of mankind.

Millions and hundreds of millions and billions of people.

Finally, the cost of the crisis is millions of homes lost and lives damaged, some permanently.

We have an opportunity to save tens of millions of lives over the next decade and to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

Has anybody noticed that for more than a decade now, US imports have been averaging several hundred billion (thousand million) dollars more than exports? Do people seriously believe that the US has accomplished its majestic trade deficit by shutting its doors to foreign goods?

I have invested tens of millions of dollars.

Millions of Brazilians have made clear where their priorities lie.

Millions of people are deprived of heating.

10,000 Gold?

China has invested billions of dollars in African oil production, mining, transportation, electricity production and transmission, telecommunications, and other infrastructure. In 2004 alone, China s foreign direct investment in Africa represented 900 million of the continent s 15 billion total.

Of course, billions of others around the world share the same dream. But the way housing finance is organized differs enormously from country to country, and these differences explain the recent global imbalances and financial crashes.

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Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal

chicken eggs, hundreds of millions of chicken eggs.

Sami's prank videos garnered millions of clicks.

There is so much joy in seeing an arrogant tyrant breakdown.

Economic losses are estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Millions of people are living in hardship.

Malaria is still killing millions each year.

The immediate impact of the disaster was felt by millions of people.

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And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.