Any profitability for private companies will come because a government is footing the bill, do you want to gamble on consistent government funding for space?

Foreign governments will also foot the bill for curators and presenters to travel abroad to see the work.

All of that factors into a cost spiral . . . multiple cost spirals really . . . the bottom line is that big ships don't work, except when you're planoforming and need everything-and some government foots the bill.

They said that the state's job market would never absorb those who would be forced off the welfare rolls and warned that local governments would foot the bill for increased demands on jails, homeless shelters and emergency rooms.

True or false: The British government footed the bill for Prince William and Catherine Middleton's royal wedding?

In New York, nearly 1,000 officers, at a cost of about $200 million a year, are assigned to antiterrorism tasks, and city officials have argued that the federal government should foot a bigger chunk of the bill.

The federal government footed the bill, an estimated $1 billion in property damage, and the prescribed fire program survived.

In the old days, the government simply would have footed the bill, but they don't do much pure research any more.

I would remind the Commissioner that the Commission itself decided, in March, that the national governments should foot the bill for pilot projects, for example, but also for the purchase of set-top boxes for individual consumers.

Personally I think the government should foot the bill and put in fiber lines to every school district in the nation.