Harvey Fierstein

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

American Actor

Jeanne Shaheen

We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.

American Politician

Barack Obama

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

American President

E. O. Wilson

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

American Scientist

Ksenia Sobchak

Putin has all the power under his control, all the security forces, all the billions of dollars he needs. It's mad to pretend otherwise.

Russian Politician

James Wolfensohn

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

Australian Businessman

Orlando Bloom

The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?

English Actor

John C. Mather

In 100 billion years, the universe will be a very strange place.

Nicholas Kristof

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

American Journalist

Thomas Peterffy

I paid $1.9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.

Hungarian Businessman

Understand that 'billion' refers to an extremely large number, used in contexts where scale matters.

Numerical Scale

Know that 'billion' can mean 'trillion' in older UK English. Always use the modern definition unless in a historical context.

Cultural Difference

Use 'billion' to emphasize a vast quantity, often implying the number is almost unimaginable.

Emphasis on Quantity

As an adjective, 'billion' signifies massive wealth or value, especially of companies or industries.

Economic Status

Describes something that has been accessed or used by a billion or more, expressing a wide impact or reach.

Impressive Reach

Indicates the high level of influence or importance, such as in a global context.

Large-Scale Influence

 two to three times its weight in blood. Turns out we don't really like that too much. In fact, humans hate mosquitos so much that we spend billions of dollars worldwide to keep them away from us -- from citronella candles to bug sprays to heavy-duty agricultural pesticides. But it's not just that mosquitos are annoying, they're also deadly.

The loathsome, lethal...

 Have you had this before? I need you to stick out your arm for science, roll up your sleeve a bit, So what I'm going to do, I'm putting electrodes on your arm, and you're probably wondering, I just said I'm going to record from your brain, what am I doing with your arm? Well, you have about 80 billion neurons inside your brain right now.

How to control someone...

 anything that becomes a threat. Or maybe they're not that intelligent, or perhaps the evolution of an intelligence capable of creating sophisticated technology is far rarer than we've assumed. After all, it's only happened once on Earth in four billion years.

Questions No One Knows...

 why we need to say the following we need to stop applauding our politicians for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ineffective green policies instead what we do need to do is to spend and encourage them to dramatically ramp up

Economics of climate...

 to become one of the world's most successful parasites. It's not just our willingness to let cats on our dining room tables or in our beds. Raising livestock and building cities which attract rodents has provided billions of new hosts,

Is there a disease that...

 Through our understanding of this relationship between brightness and decline rate, we can use these supernovae to probe distances up to several billions of light years away. But why is it important to see such distant objects anyway?

Light seconds, light...

 It's rarely seen on this scale and it won't last long. Once the food has gone, the steady roar of a billion beating locust wings will once again be replaced by nothing more than the sound of the desert wind.

Swarm Of Locusts DEVOUR...

 Consider the classic white t-shirt. Annually, we sell and buy two billion t-shirts globally, making it one of the most common garments in the world. But how and where is the average t-shirt made,

The life cycle of a...

 and at least 2.5 billion times during an average lifetime. That may sound like an insurmountable amount of pressure, but don't worry, your arteries are well suited for the challenge.

How blood pressure works...

 In a world of 7 billion people who is most typical?

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