Anyone can agree to arbitrate a disagreement or legal issue, but the key word is agree. Simply because one of the parties in a dispute desires to enter into arbitration does not take away another party's right to go to court.
Part of the Nanotechnology glossary: (This definition follows U.S. usage in which a billion is a thousand million and a trillion is a 1 followed by 12 zeros.). A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10 -9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory (RAM).
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into perspective in one of its releases: A billion seconds ago it was 1959. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it. 1  A billion seconds: One billion seconds is about 31.7 years, so going back in time a billion seconds would put us in 1972.