By doing so, the multi-billion dollar development cost of a new launch vehicle is avoided.

Kerzner extended the Atlantis brand globally with the development of Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai, with 1, 500-room, water-themed resort opened in late-September 2008 on The Palm Jumeirah-a multi-billion dollar leisure and residential development in Dubai.

The area surrounding Princes Half Tide Dock forms part of the proposed multi-billion pound Liverpool Waters development.

After the games the village is planned to become a district of the Stratford City development, a multi-billion pound development project on the former railway goods yard to the east of the Olympic Park.

Cancer drug development has exploded since then into a multi-billion dollar industry.

ALDAR Properties PJSC is spearheading the development of Abu Dhabi ; entrusted to create multi-billion Dirham civic projects to develop the capital, establishing new sectors for commerce, housing, retail and leisure.

Dan Quayle joined Cerberus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm, in 1999 and is chairman of the company's Global Investments division.

Water is being exploited through the 30-year, multi-billion dollar Lesotho Highlands Water Project ( LHWP ), which was initiated in 1986.

He is noted for his contributions to the designs for some of the multi-billion dollar projects in the United States, Middle East and India including Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center, 75-story JPMorgan Chase Tower in Houston, 160-story Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai ( present tallest tower in the world ) and The Imperial Twin Towers, Tardeo, Mumbai, India.

This is evidenced by the multi-billion dollar California tomato industry, centering around Yolo County, dominating 90 % of the canning and processed tomato market in the United States.

* Westfield Stratford City is a multi-billion pound scheme to regenerate the 73-hectare brownfield railway lands to the north of the existing town centre.

If investing is your pleasure, you may have heard of Mark Spitznagel, who manages a multi-billion dollar hedge fund.

Founded in 1995, eBay is one of the notable success stories of the dot-com bubble ; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries.

Bergman vehemently disagrees, and claims that the reason CBS Corporate is leaning on CBS News to edit the interview is because they fear that the prospect of a multi-billion dollar lawsuit could jeopardize the sale of CBS to Westinghouse.

The emerging MEMS industry is already a multi-billion dollar market.

The economics of new nuclear power plants is a controversial subject, and multi-billion dollar investments ride on the choice of an energy source.

Vending is a multi-billion dollar industry.

He is the heir and CEO of the multi-billion dollar Worthington Industries.

Completed in 1975 at a cost of $ 18 million, The Summit represented a lavish new breed of sports arena, replete with amenities, that would help the NBA grow from a second-tier professional sport into the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry that it is today.

Today it is undergoing a multi-billion euro renewal, with a renovated village centre, surrounded by estates of houses and apartments, with several sub-districts such as Sillogue and Poppintree.

Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card-making company in Japan to a multi-billion dollar video game company.

" The after market is a multi-billion dollar industry that is thriving and most interested in sport compacts.

Because what they ’ re doing … this is a multi-billion dollar business, and they ’ re acting like they ’ re in high school or kindergarten, and they just broke up with their girlfriend.

Recreational fishing is a multi-billion dollar industry In the USA, about 12 million recreational saltwater fishers generate $ 30 billion in economic impact and support 350, 000 jobs.

This product is the main reason for the rapid growth of EMC in the 1990s, both in size and value, from a company valued hundreds of millions of dollars to a multi-billion company.

He is most remembered for inventing the flight simulator, commercialized in 1929, called the " Blue Box " or " Link Trainer ", which started the now multi-billion dollar flight simulation industry.

* Increased ridership from the long overdue construction of Destiny USA, a multi-billion dollar tourism attraction, which is supposed to draw millions of tourists a year.

The FSTA filed an amicus curiae in support of CBC, also arguing that if MLBAM won the lawsuit it would have a dramatic impact on the industry, which was largely ignored by the major sports leagues for years while a number of smaller entrepreneurs grew it into a multi-billion dollar industry, and a ruling could allow the MLBAM to have a monopoly over the industry.

In stark contrast to the forty-three dollars that Cade and his team spent to make the first experimental batch of Gatorade in 1965, Gatorade prompted the evolution of a multi-billion dollar sports drink industry in the years that followed ; as of 2007, over seven billion bottles of Gatorade were being sold annually in the United States.

Videogame Nation chartered the rise of video games over the past four decades and how the industry has since become a multi-billion pound industry whose horizons have opened to new ' casual gamers ' with the success of the Wii and Nintendo DS.

It has developed over the years into a worldwide multi-billion dollar industry.

Later testimony in the United States v. Microsoft case revealed that, at the time, Apple was threatening Microsoft with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit over the allegedly stolen code, and in return Bill Gates was threatening with the cancellation of Office for the Mac.

The people who needed this standard were mainly design engineers, who worked for companies whose size ranged from a house garage to multi-billion dollar facilities with thousands of engineers.

Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio which includes technology companies, real estate holdings, and stakes in other technology, media, and content companies.

It includes salaries for about 100, 000 people, multi-billion dollar satellite programs, aircraft, weapons, electronic sensors, intelligence analysis, spies, computers, and software.

Resumption of Japan's multi-billion dollar investments to China and increased visits to China by Japanese officials, culminating in the October 1992 visit of Emperor Akihito, gave a clear indication that Japan considered closer ties with China in its economic and strategic interest.

This programme came about when Russia agreed to transport one Malaysian to the International Space Station as part of a multi-billion dollar purchase of 18 Russian Sukhoi Su-30MKM fighter jets by the Royal Malaysian Air Force.

Marked by the buyout of Dex Media in 2002, large multi-billion dollar U. S. buyouts could once again obtain significant high yield debt financing and larger transactions could be completed.

The more truth Wigand tells, the greater the damage, the theory applied goes, and a greater likelihood that CBS will be faced by a multi-billion dollar lawsuit from Brown & Williamson.

Marked by the buyout of Dex Media in 2002, large multi-billion dollar U. S. buyouts could once again obtain significant high yield debt financing and larger transactions could be completed.

Expedia was started by Microsoft and later spun off as a multi-billion dollar company because it was " no longer about software intensive technology " and they were " concerned that they would not do their best at this.

Political campaigns in the United States are not merely a civic ritual and occasion for political debate, but a multi-billion dollar industry, dominated by professional political consultants using sophisticated campaign management tools, to an extent far greater than elsewhere in the world.

Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour is also involved in corruption and he has been named in a multi-billion scrap scandal, currently being investigated by National Accountability Bureau ( NAB ).

Decision analysis is used by major corporations to make multi-billion dollar capital investments.

Halo is a multi-billion dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios.

" The multi-billion dollar bond issue was passed by voters 1, 512, 669 ( 54. 12 %) to 1, 282, 571 ( 45. 88 %).

The government is pursuing a multi-billion dollar railway project which was named " Iran's eastern corridor " by President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.

In 2002, Prince Turki was named in a multi-billion dollar lawsuit by the families of September 11 victims, alleging that he and other Saudi princes, banks, and charities may have funded the terrorists involved in the attack.

Their commercial motives are driven by the enormous, multi-billion dollar stakes involved in the intensely competitive marketing for such drugs as Prozac, Zyprexa, and Zoloft.

Nemec was then re-approached by friend and colleague J. J. Abrams to write " Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol ," the fourth installment in the multi-billion dollar film franchise starring Tom Cruise.

* Expanding the " Green Wave " environmental initiative first proposed by Treasurer Phil Angelides in 2004 to a multi-billion dollar investment in renewable energy