Huge, vast, budgets and timescales requiring ever wider distribution to make the sums balance in the end.
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Then came the investment that had the potential to make large sums of money through private placements and Halper was listening.
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As the government struggles to make the sums works for the 2015-16 spending review, the welfare budget is moving back to centre stage.
It is a conflict of interest which, outsiders argue, enables banks to make huge sums of money on their proprietary trading (dealing on their own account).
Their scarcity value has allowed privileged airlines such as British Airways to make huge sums out of them: surplus slots are traded behind the scenes for hundreds of millions of pounds.
So John Anderson, one of the members of the Pioneer 10 navigation team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, says he feels a professional responsibility to make his sums add up.
Donna Hopkins, co-ordinator for counter piracy and maritime security at the US state department, told the BBC the Somali piracy problem was escalating and would continue to do so for as long as the pirates were able to make large sums of money.
For the inflation numbers do move markets and if you can estimate them better than others and position yourself properly before the official release then you can make very substantial sums of money indeed.
The industry stands to make or lose large sums if the rules are changed, whereas everyone else has got better things to worry about than financial regulation.
But Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says that spending "huge, huge" sums on Trident would make it harder for ministers to justify cuts to welfare and other areas.
These services often take heroic efforts and huge sums of capital just to make the systems work at all.
"We wanted to come together in a bipartisan way to make Fox Sunday night rock, " sums up Simpsons executive producer Al Jean of the MacFarlane casting.
In sensitive spots like Macedonia, Kosovo and, above all, Montenegro, the swift dispatch of relatively small sums of financial assistance could well make the difference between peace and war.
Even though Alchemy has been handed Rover on a plate, it is hard to see the venture capitalists finding the huge sums needed for new models to make Longbridge viable.
For years they have invested huge sums to license drugs from rivals, make small improvements in old drugs and clinch broader marketing claims for already-existing products.
Rewards like that should make it difficult to conceal wrong-doing that involves large sums of money.
The sums are a fraction of what some hedge-fund titans make, but they catapult Messrs.
Getting big banks to come on board and consumers to turn the service into a mainstay sums up the broader challenge faced by Saunders and Visa: find ways to make the best payment options work around the world and dominate the future of electronic payments, or leave the dominating to rivals.
But to make a dent in energy markets, even young companies need scale, requiring investors to plow enormous sums in often fledgling businesses.
It threatens to undermine their plans to make a steady and systematic reduction in the level of debt outstanding as repaying of coupon and maturing sums fall due.
Pretty much sums it up, though widow Sue will go on Katie Couric's show Monday to make sure everyone understands.
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