That focus often comes at the expense of developing the human capital in the companies they fund.

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That means shareholders have already absorbed the entire expense of developing the geared turbofan and can immediately begin enjoying the dividends.

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Indeed, Repsol will need yet more cash, given the expense of developing its big recent discoveries off the coasts of Brazil and America.

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Specifically, it wants industry to share the expense of developing a new vehicle that will be produced in relatively small numbers before being recompeted, and it intends to purchase all the necessary intellectual property from the winning team so that challengers need not compete at a disadvantage with incumbents when the work is again put out for bids.

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He predicts that virtually all the poor countries' upsurge in exports will come at the expense of other developing countries, many of them only slightly better off than the poor 48.

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And because of the expense of that land, and the costs of developing on it, new entrants do not enter the market.

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"I think it just illustrates this massive hole we've gotten ourselves into by developing so much nuclear power at the expense of renewable energy, " Jacobson said.

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Famous for its globally best-selling HD HERO line of wearable and gear mountable cameras, GoPro spared no expense developing the HD HERO2.

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Kerbel says additional drugs may have to be layered on top of Avastin to prevent tumors from developing escape mechanisms--adding to the expense and side effects.

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