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That's a colossal 10% of George Osborne's entire £89bn deficit reduction plan.
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Google clearly views Apple and Facebook, rather than Microsoft, as the enemy – certainly in terms of the advertising that generates 97% of Google's revenues, $22.89bn £14.87bn for 2009.
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Also note that under the Thatcher-Major govt the national debt increased from £89bn in 1979 to £415bn in 1997 - and this despite blowing through a trillion in oil money and privatisation money - and still at the end of it the country's infrastructure was crumbling and people dying on waiting lists.
David Cameron's NHS reforms may leave him feeling sick | Jackie Ashley 2010
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Google clearly views Apple and Facebook, rather than Microsoft, as the enemy – certainly in terms of the advertising that generates 97% of Google's revenues, $22.89bn £14.87bn for 2009.
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This is based on the unlikely premise that Blair is prepared to give up part of the UK's rebate if France agrees to a cut in the proposed €89bn £59.9bn rural development fund – the "unlikely" bit being that France would ever countenance such a cut.
Doing the "decent" thing? Richard 2005
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WMEAT: 89bn for 1999, this one definitely used the 4.4 PPP rate, since China's budget was in the teens then.
China's military spending Sun Bin 2005
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BP has slumped to a market value of £89bn while Shell, the world's biggest dividend payer, is valued at £144bn.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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However, the bonus pool at the investment banking division, which includes its capital markets business, rose despite profits slipping to $6.63bn for the year from $6.89bn.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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BP has slumped to a market value of £89bn, while Shell - the world's biggest dividend payer - is valued at £144bn.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Revenues rose 5% to $20.89bn, slightly down on some analysts' expectations.
BBC News - Home 2012
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