Such a market, he thinks, would attract billions of dollars for new inventions.
But most polluters, having just been promised hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of permits for nothing, are elated.
If the object were indeed a flying saucer, recovering it could potentially be worth millions or billions of dollars.
Our modern supply of helium has gradually built up over billions of years in subterranean pockets of natural gas as a byproduct of decaying radioactive elements.
Capitalism. It is in no way honored by spending billions of dollars of tax monies to put a piece of painted metal on the moon.
They will be further rankled if he tries to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medicaid in order to get his bill passed.
Consumers spend billions of dollars each year on OTC cough and cold medications despite little evidence that these drugs provide significant relief.
He traced the history of free products from Jell-O's giveaway of billions of free recipe books starting in the '20s to today's free E-mail programs and beyond.
But Muller says this instability has resulted in an orbit that has changed greatly over billions of years, and in the next billion years Nemesis will be thrown free of the solar system.
By and large, the inventions and discoveries worth patenting are those in the pharmaceutical and biotech fields, where the pay-off for blockbuster drugs can amount to billions of dollars a year.
Such encounters between dwarf galaxies are normally seen billions of light-years away and therefore occurred billions of years ago.
Chinese enterprises can inject billions of euros of fixed direct investment into the eurozone economy.
The web's billions of pages provided a vast new source of fodder for the world's humming printers.
People swallow billions of tablets per year for headaches, fever and as a preventative against heart conditions or stroke.
But like a drop of red dye thrown into the ocean, those stars emerged into an enormous object-a galaxy boasting hundreds of billions of other stars.
Markets were further unsettled by evidence that billions of euros are being withdrawn by global investors from European equities and bonds.
An unusual, potentially disastrous event that was certain to affect millions of Americans and put billions of dollars of property at risk is just the sort of thing the media should be covering.
Not only does the university President need to cajole a bunch of people he can't fire, he needs to convince others on the outside to contribute billions of dollars to fund his or her vision.
They will not, in the foreseeable future, operate on a scale that can foster a rapid transition away from fossil fuels or provide energy services to billions of new consumers.
We can't measure it over billions of years or over billions of light years, but we can measure it to very, very high precision in the laboratory.
Each one of these strike-throughs meant billions of dollars and thousands of jobs lost in dozens of congressional districts.
Click on the chart below for an animated explanation of how this game of Old Maid is played with hundreds of billions of dollars.
South Korea, China and India are pouring tens of billions of dollars into scientific fields that range from genomics to nanotechnology.
Oil firms, with only 2% of the permits, feel hard done by. But most polluters, having just been promised hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of permits for nothing, are elated.
Such deductions, which are worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year, narrow the tax base and distort behaviour, and their benefits flow disproportionately to the most affluent taxpayers.
Meanwhile, the processor just sits there, wasting billions of cycles.
Buried nuclear waste could be detectable even after billions of years.
Having defaulted on some of their obligations, the Gosaibis allege that Mr Sanea defrauded them of billions of dollars, borrowing money in their name, without their say-so.
I am looking forward to another cooperator. The cooperator can obtain 10 billions of job opportunities and inestimable economic befit in 50 years.
After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner — a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.
Even though some of these elements take billions of years to decay (on average), the Earth has been around for billions of years!
If astronomers could observe metallicity gradients in spiral galaxies billions of light-years away, we could see how steep the gradients were billions of years ago and thus how they change over time.
Those electronic signals move information almost at the speed of light-billions of times faster than the shuffling, shivering humans in the visa queue.
I think, in my previous life, my former life is a thousand times of looking back, looking for billions of times, so that we can meet you, the only one among you.
But, billions of dollars and much heartache later, it is ready.
Feeding billions of starving people poses a daunting challenge, and many argue that industrialization has only drained the world of its natural resources.
Two years into Obama's presidency, U.S. thinking on Pakistan is just as muddled as before, despite billions of dollars in new aid and a new determination to acknowledge the problems more openly.
It also offloads billions of dollars in retiree health-care liabilities hobbling the Big Three to outside trust funds.
The EFSF would create a new "Eurobond, " as Credit Suisse (CS) is calling it, to help finance the acquisition of billions of euros worth of peripheral sovereign debt held by private investors.
It's a plotline worthy of an action film - galaxies, violently torn apart, smashing into one another, leaving remnants of themselves behind billions of years later.
Herbal medicines are the most lucrative form of traditional medicine, generating billions of dollars in revenue.
You can release the critters in the real world, but if they don't have some unique advantage, they will be vastly outnumbered by the billions of natural mosquitoes already out there.
The great crystal satellite shattered into billions of fragmented crystalline shards, which now fill the deep trenches of the Atlantic.
The banking sector was weak and fragmented and Nigeria's government was bogged down in fruitless negotiations over the billions of dollars of debt racked up during years of corrupt military rule.
So we developed a program that sends out billions of software ants to find out where the pheromone trails are strongest for our truck routes.
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