Sentences with phrase «life billions of»

Scientists from NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) spacecraft have determined that solar wind and radiation stripped away the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid, dry world.

Or perhaps a microbe - bearing rock was hurled by an impact into space and landed on Venus or Mars, which may have been more hospitable to life billions of years ago.

The question of what may happen to life some billions of years from now is perhaps too remote to have any consequence in our thinking, except as it reminds us of the precarious situation of all life.

There's no way to prove that dating methods work because no man alive, not even the creators of such dating methods, lived billions of years ago.

They also live billions of years longer than sun - like stars, on average.

Not exact matches

Now, 14 years after inheriting her father's semi-successful company, she took in $ 10 million last year by overseeing a half - billion dollars of hotel construction and living the life she has always wanted.

Speaking of work - life balance: Musk reportedly works about 85 to 100 hours per week, but until I'm worth $ 19.5 billion, I'll pass on that.

The studio has two more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies from Pixar Animation Studios (including Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed more than $ 1 billion apiece).

The technology could potentially make it faster, cheaper, and simpler for healthcare providers to accurately predict a patient's cardiovascular risk, which could save millions of lives and billions of dollars.

In addition to writing several best - selling books like The Road Ahead, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has raised billions of dollars to combat infectious diseases and elevate the quality of life for impoverished nations around the globe.

We estimate that low natural gas prices and state policies that move utilities away from coal are savings tens of thousands of lives and tens of billions of dollars each year.

«The expectation at work has been to live by the standards the men set up,» says Adi Tatarko, the co-founder and CEO of Houzz, a design and e-commerce website now valued at more than $ 1 billion.

Certainly, Tillerson has committed billions of Exxon shareholders» money to Russia, and even if he cuts his own financial ties to the company, it will be hard for him to pursue any kind of foreign policy that undoes much of his life's work.

Today, applies the same philosophy to more sustainable products like solar panels and LED bulbs to create the billion - dollar line of Products for a More Sustainable Life at Home.

As a candidate, he called for everyone living in the country illegally to return to their home countries and for Mexico to pay billions of dollars for the wall.

Aims to source 100 % of its agricultural feedstocks from sustainable agriculture and to improve the lives of 1 billion people.

He has practically doubled or tripled his net worth in every decade of his life, and is now worth $ 67 billion.

Health tech and biotech have the power to transform the lives of millions, if not billions, of people in the not - too - distant future.

After selling Iams to Procter & Gamble for $ 2.3 billion in 1999, Mathile could very well have retired to a life of margaritas on the beach.

On the company's first day of life as a publicly traded company, shares shot to more than $ 31, after pricing at $ 24, pushing the company's value close to $ 4 billion.

Indeed, IE lives within the Windows division — Microsoft's core business, and a major source of revenue (about $ 19 billion a year) and profit (about $ 12 billion a year), while Microsoft Advertising is part of the Online group, which is on track to lose more than $ 2 billion this year.

Trump has suggested that the U.S. can recoup wall expenses from Mexico via alternative methods, including by cutting its trade surplus with the U.S.. He's also floated the option of invoking the Patriot Act to cut off or tax remittance payments to Mexico from Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. Mexicans sent home $ 25.7 billion in remittances in 2016, according to the Banco de Mexico.

France's AXA says it will spend $ 15.3 billion on buying New York - listed insurer XL Group and speed up its plans to spin off its American life insurance business — the IPO would give it $ 6 billion to help fund the XL purchase, with the rest coming in the form of cash and debt issuance.

The Crown corporation said Monday that CUPW's demands are «not affordable» and would add $ 1 billion in costs over the life of a new contract.

Last week the company said it is rolling out a worldwide private network and load balancers of its own to speed file access for the 75 % of its half - billion users living outside the U.S. (Dropbox still uses AWS data centers in countries that mandate that user data stay local.)

«You're talking about billions of dollars in claims for damage, business interruption, loss of life.

From riding an elephant into a sales meeting, hiring a marching band to pump up his team and going from the brink of bankruptcy to building a billion - dollar business, Moses shares his business and life lessons on how to think big, build amazing teams, create company culture and overcome adversity.

Black Ops, according to CEO Bobby Kotick, «shattered Xbox LIVE launch records, surpassing 1.4 million downloads in the first 24 hours alone... [and] players have logged more than 1.2 billion online hours of online gameplay.»

Seven in 10 of the world's poor live in remote or rural areas, where access to medical services is sharply limited or not available at all: 5 billion people can't reach or afford essential surgical care, from emergency caesarian sections to cancer surgery.

His own firm is currently in the process of merging with domestic rival Standard Life to create an # 11 billion asset management giant, described by Gilbert as a «financial powerhouse».

The documentary traces Buffett's life story, from growing up the son of a U.S. Representative from Nebraska who had some trouble in school, to amassing upwards of $ 73 billion by leading Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a).

These upgrades are part of what is now a $ 3 billion commitment from the carrier to improve the passenger experience throughout the travel life cycle.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

Just witness the billions of people still willing to share details of their personal lives with Facebook.

The 11 billion pound merger triggered the right for Lloyds and Scottish Widows, which is part of the British bank, to review an agreement struck in 2014 for Aberdeen to manage pension assets on behalf of Lloyds» insurance and wealth units as Standard Life is a «material competitor» to both.

I asked Mark to share with me in two sentences or less about how he went from having $ 0 in the bank and living on a couch at a friend's house to becoming a self - made entrepreneur with a net worth of $ 3.2 billion (at latest count).

I've learned more about who I want to become as a leader and discovered how I want to change the world by making it my mission to have a positive impact on the lives of one billion people.

Australia's ASX - listed life sciences sector is valued at $ 100 billion and the global biotechnology market is expected to reach USD 727 billion by 2025, at a growth rate of 7.4 %.

Australia boasts one of world's highest life - expectancy rates, with the island - nation's inhabitants spending more than $ 8 billion a year on health and wellness.

Organovo, a startup in San Diego, has already gone public with a market capitalization of half a billion dollars on the strength of its method for printing living cells.

Even by spinning off $ 20 billion in assets, GE apparently can't move fast enough to preserve the dividends that millions of retired Americans depend upon to maintain their standard of living.

Well, according to Internet Live Stats, the number of people online compared to the total world population is still only about 40 %, or 3.3 billion.

Despite the fact that Zuckerberg made billions from a company that encourages people to share the details of their lives, he doesn't want the specifics of the meetings leaking, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Life - sciences companies closed deals worth $ 166.3 billion in the first quarter of this year, surpassing the value of all 2014 deals combined, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The reasons are understandable — a billion - dollar payday for Instagram, for example, tends to get investors» attention — but let's face it: another Facebook camera app is not going to save people's health, or restore American competitiveness, or life ur standard of living or quality of life.

An individual has the potential to impact the lives of a billion people in a decade.

The global balance of power and billions of lives are dependent on keeping computer infrastructure safe.

Alibaba faces the challenge of living up to the high expectations of investors and analysts after its IPO in September, but its shares have increased by more than 20 % since then, and its $ 285 billion market cap exceeds that of Walmart by about $ 30 billion.

No matter how the federal health care debate turns out, developing more reliable health care guides for consumers has the potential improve care quality, saving lives and eliminating billions of dollars in needless costs.

Bush's speech came just six weeks after the US invaded Iraq, but the war dragged on for years after, costing thousands of lives and billions in taxpayer money.