Aside from buying a stake, Amgen also reserved the right to collaborate in developing ViaCell products, paying half of development costs.
And in half a century of development in sport, that's not a lot.
Poland musters a paltry 0.7% of GDP for research and development, half the Czech level (the EU target is 3%).
European countries account for just over half of all global official development assistance.
Gene Baldwin, a partner with the restructuring firm CRG Partners LLC, estimates that moving into an existing site can cut development costs in half.
What is regrettable, however, is that only one half of the broader ominous development is beginning to receive attention commensurate with the risks posed.
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Some researchers predicted imaging could cut drug development time in half.
After completing the next phase of development, he estimates Galaxy Macau would still have about half their land plot on Cotai available for future development.
He said there were half a dozen similar devices in development around the world.
Nelson, director of Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, estimates, for example, that half of the real-estate development built by 2025 will not have existed in 2000.
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General Motors has initially made 100 of its plug-in electric hybrid Chevrolet Volts available for purchase by the 1, 000 residents of the Mueller development and more than half have been sold so far, according to a company representative.
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Putting more than half a million road miles on development versions of the Spark EV enabled engineers to make the performance of the electric motor the best it could be by using a bar wound copper stator and unique rotor configuration.
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Apparently, while 73% of middle managers say they work in an environment that claims to support learning and development only around a half of them are actually experiencing it in practice and a quarter of them believe that in reality their companies actually see personal development as something of a luxury.
When he came to Facebook about three and a half years ago, having overseen talent development at Yahoo!
Underpinning this development is the integration of half the world's population into the global market economy, and the deepening and broadening of the capital and derivative markets.
McLaren had been off the pace of its rivals throughout practice and qualifying, paying the price early in the season for a radical overhaul of the car in the hope of having more development upside in the second half.
Through its Water for Life Decade (2005-2015), the United Nations is working to meet the Millennium Development Goals to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015 and to put a stop to the unsustainable exploitation of water resources.
Nonetheless, REIT research firm Green Street Advisors expects industrial development to quicken in the second half of the year.
Mr Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party are supported by over half of all Turks, according to recent polls.
The state's Employment Development office estimates that nearly a half-million state residents have lost their jobs in the past year.
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Sheridan Jones, the director of business-strategy in Microsoft's Kinect for Windows division, said the company has had more than a half-million downloads of a software-development kit that it made available to developers about a year ago.
Alistair Gill, head of offshore wind farm development, said the project was "half the size of the original plans".
We're asking both candidates to commit to cutting poverty in half in ten years, and supporting the millennium development goals on global poverty.
About half of the recruits will work in research and development.
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Eric Levine, from Restless Development, a youth development agency, said youngsters made up half of the world's population and must play an "essential role" in tackling the most urgent world issues.
Kiera Roche, strategic development officer for the Limbless Association, said half the battle for Ali is his mental state.
Indeed, emerging economies--defined here as those not included in the 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development--now make up more than half of the world's economic horsepower.
Such research also represents a healthy half-step between pure academic research and for-profit development.
Half a billion dollars in cash now underpins his closely held development company, Related Group.
Think about that: one-half of the progress of our economy is due to research and development.
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