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The entrepreneur built Mango from a single Barcelona shop in 1984 into an international retailer with thousands of stores and billions of dollars in annual sales.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Not having to pay billions of dollars to Musk in damages may help those odds.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Pratt’s candidacy comes as many voters have grown frustrated over the lack of progress in cleaning up the streets despite billions of their dollars being spent to get people into shelters and permanent housing.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

That setup has investors pouring billions into non-Chinese rare earth projects.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

On Mars, and elsewhere in the solar system, we see features that could not be produced today, landscapes carved hundreds of millions or billions of years ago when the planetary climate was probably very different.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan