Word: trillion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this case, but are trade discussions and agreements the appropriate forums for these issues? If the ruling stands in spite of the Administration's appeal, it is possible that the United States government will have to ascertain the environmental effects of all of the country's more than one trillion dollars in annual imports and exports...
Perhaps the greatest threat to commercial banks has come from life insurers and pension funds. The two have combined assets of $4.5 trillion, exceeding that of the entire banking industry. They are the largest source of financing for U.S. industry. While bank lending was dropping during the past two years, loans by life insurers jumped $50 billion...
After a year of the most intensive search ever mounted to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, have picked up 164 signals -- out of 30 trillion recorded -- that "bear further investigation." This doesn't mean that E.T.s have been found, only that these anomalies have not yet been otherwise explained...
Nothing could be further from the truth. The risk of HIV transmission from a dining hall worker to a student through the food the student eats is over one trillion times less than the chance of being struck by lightning, hit by a meteor or dying of frostbite in the summer. Of the estimated 10 million. HIV Positive people worldwide, not a single one was infected with HIV by ingesting contaminated food. In fact, it is not even believed to be theoretically; possible...
...this the time to get out of stocks? In spite of the danger signs, few Wall Street gurus foresee a sharp downturn anytime soon, as long as interest rates stay low. That's because investors still have plenty of liquid funds left: they hold nearly $3 trillion in low-yielding investments like bank CDs and are likely to continue moving them into stocks. Even if share prices start to tumble, experts say, fund managers and cash-rich individuals will swiftly scoop up bargains and thereby halt the slide before it can erode the market 20% -- the level that indicates...