Samsung outspends HTC by four times on marketing, says Jeffrey Pu, research analyst at Fubon Securities in Taipei.

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Although private industry outspends Washington in total research and development dollars, the federal government is far and away the most generous supporter of basic research.

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George Soros, an American philanthropist who outspends most foreign governments in his do-gooding in Russia, supports 4, 000 of Russia's best teachers, as well as such things as book-buying by public libraries, stipends for scientists, public health, and retraining jobless army officers.

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The left routinely outspends the right.

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