Since 2009, the billion-euro Herschel telescope has been unravelling the complexities of star birth and galaxy evolution.
They're hauling the billion-dollar lab to the International Space Station for a rendezvous tomorrow.
Red Hat will be the first open source-focused company to break the billion dollar barrier.
For example, Henry Markopolos spent nearly a decade attempting to expose the billion-dollar Madoff Ponzi Scheme.
Research firm eMarketer estimates that Web video ad sales could reach the billion-dollar mark in 2010.
He owns now owns roughly one-fifth of one percent of the billion-dollar building.
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India, which will breach the billion mark some time early next century, ranks even less.
Anyone, anywhere, can build the billion-dollar businesses in the new trillion-dollar industries that will emerge.
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That, and the billion dollars in revenue McGraw Hill booked last quarter in their education division.
So far, only 3.2 percent of those are smartphones, but consider the billion-user base.
The billion-dollar trick would be to persuade the body it is starving when it is not.
The ten current startups to hit the billion-dollar milestone have acquired 19 venture-backed startups.
The billion dollars in health care spending on niacin might be better directed elsewhere.
That additional expense is what boosts the price over the billion-dollar mark at today's value.
The CFO at the time of the billion-dollar plus malfeasance and bankruptcy was PwC alumni Henri Steenkamp.
Most of the billion-dollar money pools, endowments and pension funds were cut in half over 24 months.
Whether Torres, a mother of twins, will want to maintain control in five years is the billion-dollar question.
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And foreign investment, despite the billion-dollar bond, remains sluggish compared with what is going into other Crisis-hit nations.
But just exactly how much upside Tysabri can muster is the billion-dollar question.
"That's the billion-dollar question, " says Santarelli, who is holding off testing his drug in autism until researchers know more.
They might have done a go slow approach to implementing CORE so the billion dollar in savings never materializes.
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The billion dollar question is THE question for consumer web startups these days.
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Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin (No. 634) are the other Facebook founders who crossed the the billion dollar threshold.
Until 1994, we had no knowledge of another solar system, and now they are out there by the billion.
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Next up for the billion-dollar business: overseas expansion, as longtime Spanx CEO Laurie Ann Goldman told Forbes in March.
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Based on our research, we see 15 people as likely candidates to breach the billion-dollar barrier in the coming years.
Daniels says that Trojan currently has 2% of the billion-dollar vibrator market, but wants to grow that number this year.
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Israeli analysts scoffed at the report, noting that the billion dollars Ahmadinejad pledged is insufficient to purchase the weapons he outlined.
The billion-dollar question: Will small firms buy enough bells and whistles to let Urban Media and its rivals turn a profit?
Without the wall-to-wall TV coverage of today, the NCAA tournament hadn't yet emerged as the billion-dollar behemoth it has since become.
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