It's about to become the first billion-dollar movie. From Wordnik.com. [Our Titanic Love Affair] Reference
But Versace's billion-dollar name won't become a museum relic. From Wordnik.com. [Forever Linked In Death] Reference
By the mid-1980s, Armani was looking at a billion-dollar future. From Wordnik.com. [Armani After All] Reference
Why have a couple of billion-dollar hedge funds suddenly exploded?. From Wordnik.com. [Global Investor: Handicapping The Hedge Hogs] Reference
Movies, books and TV make up the rest of the billion-dollar business. From Wordnik.com. [Bylines] Reference
Let's say that in your stable of mutual funds is a billion-dollar fund. From Wordnik.com. [The Light Went On] Reference
But just below the surface of all that billion-dollar ice, there is hope. From Wordnik.com. [Hip-Hop's Hope] Reference
It's not hard to imagine the Wiggles turning into a billion-dollar empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Wide World Of Wiggles] Reference
Muse says he's eying at least four new acquisitions in the billion-dollar range. From Wordnik.com. [The Fixer-Uppers] Reference
You announced your first billion-dollar quarter for business in the Apple stores. From Wordnik.com. [A (New) Chip on His SHoulder] Reference
Russia says it will complete construction of the billion-dollar plant next month. From Wordnik.com. [EU Steps Up Iran Penalties But Also Lifts Some Curbs] Reference
We'd sit around and talk about "Will there ever be a billion-dollar software company?". From Wordnik.com. [How We Did It] Reference
I'd love to see us have a billion-dollar business in China between snacks and beverages. From Wordnik.com. [THE YIN AND YANG OF CHIPS] Reference
The ones who took billion-dollar bites from the apple are suffering postlapsarian blues. From Wordnik.com. [THE FILM OF TOMORROW] Reference
He then amended the declaration — slightly: "If it happens, it's a billion-dollar campaign.". From Wordnik.com. [The Revolutionary] Reference
"By the end of year one, this is going to be a billion-dollar company -- easily," said Maktoum. From Wordnik.com. [Sheik of Speed] Reference
McMahon himself arrived years ago, turning a cartoon sport into a billion-dollar business empire. From Wordnik.com. [Not Your Father's Nfl] Reference
AT&T just boasted of its first billion-dollar quarter in revenue for its cable-TV service, U-verse. From Wordnik.com. [Art Brodsky: Congressional Shark Jumpers Help Big Telecom Empires] Reference
Proof that men will be men -- comforting news for anyone trying to market a billion-dollar potency drug. From Wordnik.com. [Not Quite Viagra Nation] Reference
By all estimates, before the end of next month "Titanic" will be the first billion-dollar movie ever released. From Wordnik.com. [Our Titanic Love Affair] Reference
It's not just that the city is facing a billion-dollar budget gap, which will require a new round of cutbacks. From Wordnik.com. [City Slickers] Reference
Some analysts predict that with the additional versions of the Wiggles, this could be a billion-dollar business. From Wordnik.com. [Coming To America] Reference
Versace's billion-dollar company, which was expected to go public this year, had been put on an austerity budget. From Wordnik.com. [Gianni's World] Reference
Back during the bubble, there were plenty of situations where other people would come in with billion-dollar funds. From Wordnik.com. [The Hard Times In Silicon Valley] Reference
She became locked in a still unresolved lawsuit with Marshall's son, E. Pierce Marshall, over the billion-dollar estate. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Nicole's Tabloid Odyssey] Reference
When clocks strike midnight on that dread Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000, will billion-dollar portfolios vanish into cyberspace?. From Wordnik.com. [A Pop Quiz For Wall Street] Reference
It's a billion-dollar work in progress that symbolizes the fact that the entertainment industry now drives L. A.'s economy. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood, The Sequel] Reference
In the first decade after World War II, the toy business nearly tripled; by the late '50s it was a billion-dollar industry. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Boom Years] Reference
Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: Put this billion-dollar purchase into perspective for us, in relation to Wal-Mart's global size and reach. From Wordnik.com. [For Sale: Toads and Eels] Reference
In a rapid staccato, she insists that she's in control and running the billion-dollar business "as Gianni would have wanted it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Donatella Style] Reference
As the go-go 1980s hurtled along, the deals got big — KKR's first billion-dollar deal came in 1984 — and then unfathomably huge. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians on the Sofa] Reference
So where does this leave the amyloid theory of Alzheimer's and the billion-dollar drug-development effort that assumes it to be true?. From Wordnik.com. [Are We Taking the Wrong Approach to Curing Alzheimer’s?] Reference
So while the world debates capping carbon emissions, oil companies are busy plowing their billion-dollar profits back into deep water. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Center of the Earth] Reference
Byrd is so brazen about his billion-dollar goal that in less hypocritical circles, his heavy-handed approach might be called blackmail. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince Of Pork] Reference
Barings, you recall, was a venerable British investment bank until Leeson vaporized it in a billion-dollar trading loss this past spring. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, 'Great Customer'] Reference
John Ramsey, back at work as president and CEO of his billion-dollar computer firm, Access Graphics, plans to commute from Boulder on the weekends. From Wordnik.com. [Complications In The Case] Reference
"There are a lot of people who don't want us to go bald because it's a billion-dollar industry selling us combs, shampoos, hair pieces, hair transplants and hair medication.". From Wordnik.com. [Book Excerpt: 'Hair! Mankind's Historic Quest To End Baldness'] Reference
Eisner took the near-unheard-of step of submitting the project to Disney's strategic-planning committee, which typically crunches numbers for potential billion-dollar takeovers. From Wordnik.com. [The Road To 'Pearl Harbor'] Reference
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