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Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.

As America knows, Obama turned down the lucrative career path guaranteed to the first African-American president of The Harvard Law Review to pursue the missions of service and teaching instead. The potential rewards for our country, now that that early choice has led him into the White House, are enormous.

I haven't had the most lucrative career. If I'm going to be completely honest, I'm a one-hit wonder.

We have people from places like Oracle, Microsoft, Intuit. Sama plays a huge role in why people leave lucrative careers to join a social enterprise.

Most of the cricketers are doing side businesses apart from playing the sport, so why should I be left behind. I feel there is a lot of money in making films, and since Punjabi cinema is doing good, this is a lucrative option for me.

Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

I don't stay in one discipline because it's more lucrative than another. In fact, the most successful thing I ever did was 'Just Kids,' for which I had absolutely no expectations.

Until now, financial institutions have controlled who is able to obtain credit and the rates people pay. Over time, this one-sided control has bred inefficiencies and excessive margins -- leading to higher rates for borrowers, and restricting people who have money to lend from entering and generating income from this vital and lucrative market.

Unless it is a lucrative offer, we are not interested in playing.

We researched the market, and we think there is a core business we could attract at the airport that could be very lucrative to us.

We have reached saturation point commercially in Scotland and Ireland, which are our core markets, and we have to look at other areas, ... First and foremost, Du Wei is here as a footballer whom Gordon Strachan feels has great potential. If we can piggy-back on to that and get commercial benefits from it, all the better. The Chinese market is potentially even more lucrative than the Japanese one and we are already looking at a tour next year taking in both Shanghai and Japan.

Many consumers are calling for live TV and lower pricing before they'll start watching video on the smallest of screens. But considering those that are likely to use it, namely, high-income, young-adult wireless subscribers, it might serve the industry well to lower the cost barrier in order to reach more of this lucrative market.

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

Since the US remains the biggest and most lucrative pharmaceutical market in the world, it is no surprise to find companies eager to develop individual US pricing departments. Having a US pricing department is critical because it allows companies to be more flexible and better positioned to respond to the ever- changing pharmaceutical environment in the US.

Now, this story certainly has its humorous aspects. And it's easy to make fun of an incident like this. Very easy. But it also raises a serious issue, one which I feel very strongly about. ... Moms, dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasize enough: Do not let your kids go on hunting trips with the vice president. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land or energy regulations they're trying to get lifted. It's just not worth it.

Retirement is now viewed as a beginning, not an end. There is greater acceptance that retirement is a time to look forward to, and a whole industry has grown up to serve this lucrative market.

Policy makers here in Washington vastly underestimate the destabilizing effect of this lucrative underground market. As long as there are billions of dollars at stake, you'll always have people willing to get into the trade.

Certainly in the high-performance side, this gives them a lot of strength. They had a lot of commodity market products that they were shipping a lot of volume in, but at the more lucrative high-end of the market, Burr Brown is a good match for them.

For publishers and authors, this means that electronic books and periodicals can now quickly grow to become a vast and lucrative new industry.

There is a growing population of consumers that value the imaging function of their mobile phone. These consumers are willing to pay more for their handset; tend to take, share, and print more pictures with their camera phone; and spend more per month on wireless services. Vendors need a product and marketing strategy to appeal to this lucrative imaging-centric market segment.

Hutchison's experience, size, influence and, most importantly, knowledge of the region will allow priceline.com to quickly establish operations throughout Asia on which we can build a lucrative business in the coming years,

I think it's a blooming business. You have to have the drive, but in a short amount of time, you can have a lucrative job.

Parents get mobile phones for their teens because they want to communicate in case of an emergency, and wireless carriers have made it easy to add users to their existing plans. Wireless carriers have been very successful in getting parents to expand their plans to include their teens, but between free phones and shared minutes, it's not the most lucrative proposition for carriers.

Over the longer term, the commercial contracts are going to be more lucrative and larger, but over the short term there is some softness in the market.

over what is already the most lucrative contract in the industry.

Our speakers' keen insight on GLBT marketing and advertising is essential to all brand managers seeking inroads into this lucrative market

Robust demand for loans in retail and further penetration in the lucrative Balkan markets helped bring about the jump in profit.

I think clearly with the success of videogames, entertainment people know that it's definitely a lucrative and popular field and certainly with all the fan-based websites and the fans writing in, I think it's taken very seriously.

M&A is a much more lucrative exit for them right now. It is hard to say whether a window will open up again where we'll see strong IPO activity, but I think M&A will remain the more popular exit in 2006.

We now find ourselves in a space race of our own. (This is) an increasingly volatile and aggressive race with other jurisdictions to compete for this very lucrative economic sector.

When the airport is completed in 2010, we predict the number of passengers would already reach more than 10 million, thus it is very lucrative for the commercial side.

We're trying to make these awards as lucrative as possible. We also use a small portion of the money raised for some off-budget equipment needs.

We really didn't see their transition game other than the first part of the first period. Their forwards are so skilled that they can really turn something very average into something that's very lucrative in an awful hurry. We managed the puck pretty well tonight.

We think we're in an enviable position in these increasingly lucrative marketplaces.

When you get large, lucrative contracts, the expectations are a little greater. The statistics aren't what I'm accustomed to, but what I brought each Sunday was going out and giving it all I've got.

Trafficking in counterfeit documents poses a serious security vulnerability and contributes to a host of other types of crimes, including identity theft and financial fraud. Our goal is to identify and ultimately dismantle the criminal organizations behind these highly lucrative schemes.

We've had a couple of trucks stolen in recent weeks or months, and we believe the thieves are chopping up the trucks and selling the parts. It's very lucrative for them, they realize 100-percent profit.

What better way to buy access to a lawmaker than to hire the lawmaker's son, daughter or spouse as their lobbyist on a lucrative retainer?

What the credit bureaus are most interested in is gaining market share in the increasingly lucrative market for credit scores.

We lost money the first year I was here, but we've made money every year since 1999. I think the board of directors that hired me would be blown away by what we're doing now. I know I'm blown away. We've grown into one of the more lucrative festivals in the state.

With lucrative industry employment ahead of them, FCC chairs and most commissioners have a built-in conflict of interest, ... They simply can't take the independent positions necessary to fulfill their responsibilities to the public and to the public interest.

Us companies will be able to enter India's lucrative and growing energy market, potentially providing jobs for thousands of Americans.

We know that Jeff received lucrative offers from other clubs. Jeff was keen to remain at Melbourne and hopes to be part of something special over the next few years,

We know that Jeff received lucrative offers from other clubs,

There's no question that Japan is one of the fastest-growing Linux markets. As the number of Linux servers deployed in Japan continues to grow, U.S. vendors are recognizing that this could be a very lucrative market for system management solutions.

I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.

The second half of last year we started to see another list of projects in place. It is in a lucrative position with one of the strongest production profiles in the sector with very attractive margins as well.

These days, the viruses are like guerrillas, rather than regular troops -- there are a lot of them out there trying to infiltrate peoples' systems and spy on their activity. Law enforcement has got better, and if you look at the big outbreaks of the past a lot of virus writers have found themselves in prison for very little personal gain. These days, the sorts of people likely to write viruses are being contacted by organized crime and their skills are being put to a more lucrative use.

Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a lucrative spectator sport. If humans venture back to the moon, and even beyond, they may carry commercial insignia rather than national flags.

Profit was the motive, with sales goals as high as $20,000 a day. The dealers took aggressive steps to protect their lucrative enterprise.

The more lucrative the drug market, the higher the percentage of experts with financial ties - that has to raise serious questions about these panels' objectivity.

Demolition contractors tend not to go out of business. It's very lucrative and you get to be your own boss. And you get to wear flannel shirts and hard hats and spit and use bad language.

That package was way too lucrative for the services performed

That's where all the time and money is. Without question, this group will be more lucrative in the future.

This is an extremely lucrative sport and a glamorous one. He can make a lot of money and be a very valuable commodity for advertisers.

This blitz is a reminder of the fact that while enterprises are extremely important to the company, HP has not lost the focus on things that it excels at. The consumer market can be very lucrative as consumers move beyond using their PCs just for e-mail and word processing.

They (sponsors) want to buy while the property is cheap. Both sides have a risk. He's got a risk taking deals not lucrative enough if he does exceptionally well. If he doesn't do well, the brands have probably overpaid.

A March event from a PR and marketing standpoint would have a shelf life that would lend itself to your summer market, which is not nearly as lucrative for us as an October date. Now do you get a little more publicity? Do you get a little more exposure? Do your ratings nationally go up? I think maybe they all offset each other, but at the same time it is not an equal transition from October to March if you look at it strictly from PR and marketing.

Al Sharpton can legitimately have a lucrative entertainment career and speaking career. People genuinely find him to be very entertaining, he can be funny and maybe he'll make some money.

You don't see them this lucrative very often. This is kind of off the charts.

You can't maintain a pit or other facilities for fighting, but the county has no law against owning birds. There's a lucrative business in the buying and selling of specially bred roosters.

This lending has been lucrative to banks here. The housing market has been vibrant.

They're expecting to collect rent. Whether its government contracts or monopolies or lucrative business deals.

There's a real fan base in Mexico. That's a very intriguing and potentially very lucrative market for the NFL.

The morning is an extremely lucrative time slot for network television and of course, if it's making money, everybody wants a slice of that pie.

It's extremely lucrative for the insurers, much more so than other types of insurance.

It's a unique Washington story. Usually you rise, you fall and then you become a lucrative lobbyist. Here's a case where he rose, he fell and he stuck it out in the institution.

It was so incredibly lucrative that I really had to think about it for a long time.

It's a niche holiday. It's not the most lucrative holiday, but retailers look at it as a nice bump in what is traditionally considered a slow month.

It's a highly lucrative market that is widely perceived as being under-addressed.

Foreign investors have more lucrative investment sectors to put their money into, but the futures market is clearly not a sound option for them now as it is not profitable industry for the time being.

It's not easy working in the midst of colleagues and corporate representatives whom you are essentially criticizing, reading trade press accounts regularly challenging your motives, responding to wild, imaginative charges, knowing you are cutting yourself off from future governmental appointments or lucrative jobs in the industry.

It's long hours, it means giving up holidays with your family for what's not a really lucrative job. But at least you have the satisfaction of creating something beautiful.

It's more than a gold mine - it's an untapped diamond mine. China is by far the most lucrative frontier for the American film market. Once they open the floodgates, the potential and the growth that we will be seeing in the film business will be enormous.

It's a lucrative market, and a great audience. These are people who spend money and replace their machines on a regular basis.

The attorney general's perspective is that she would like to have a clear and fair set of standards that hospitals should meet in exchange for the very lucrative privilege of tax-exempt status. I can assure you that for many hospitals, that's worth millions in any given year.

That is one area that Microsoft thinks is potentially very lucrative and fast growing.

I've had wonderfully lucrative offers to do another network series. I could do that again and have a very luscious retirement.

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

They decided to remain in control of destiny and build a much bigger, lucrative company.

This is consistent with this board's pattern of disrespecting shareholder interests in favor of entrenching themselves in their lucrative positions.

I'm delighted that this agreement can finally enter into force, and I raise my glass to the negotiators for their efforts. This deal will facilitate access for EU wines to the lucrative US market, where consumers greatly appreciate the quality and long history behind our wines. In today's increasingly competitive market place, it is vital that there are no unnecessary and burdensome barriers for our winemakers, who I believe are the best in the world. The EU attaches great importance to the proper protection of its geographical indications abroad.

I'm extremely pleased to be joining the company that is playing an attractive role in the areas of convergence, IMS enablement and network evolution, ... ITS' technological innovation and growth trajectory, coupled with its leadership in Value Added Solutions with unique value propositions and compelling return on investment models, make it uniquely positioned to win in the global marketplace. I'm fully committed to helping carriers and customers around the world to launch innovative and lucrative services, and to accelerating the company's success in the marketplace.

I'm optimistic we'll get the player signed. I think it's a good fit for the player and the organization. But it's important that we try and get this done as soon as possible. I don't think it's unreasonable. We feel the offer we have on the table is a very lucrative and very fair offer.

If Mozart were alive today, I don't think there's any question he'd be writing for the movies. This was a guy who was always looking for ways to make money, and soundtracks can be a very lucrative field.

Individual mortgages are a lucrative business. When floating mortgage rates hover around 5 percent, the bank's cost is only 1.1 percent on average.

In the entire state of Arizona, we sell less than a hundred sheep permits. This is not a lucrative business. It's not about money. We lose money on the sheep management program.

I know it's financially lucrative to go out on my own, but I don't like it. It's really hard work, just the performance aspect. I like people who look like they've been together for too long and sound like they've been together too long. I like rock n' roll bands.

By ignoring the rural South and the inner cities and Hispanic markets, most businesses are ignoring the most lucrative market available on the face of the Earth.

Clearly this was Dick Morris' day in the sun. And if he would have been careful and obviously not been quite as bravado to his pillow mate, the reality is he could have had a very lucrative career in the future.

For my first gig, I got $75. I could make money being funny, so I pursued it as a career and have turned it into a lucrative business.

The idea is to show the toys earlier and earlier, partly to get the lucrative deals, and so that changes can be made to products if it's required.

The evidence in this case speaks for itself, ... Top managers knew market timing was harming buy-and-hold investors but they condoned and facilitated it because it was a lucrative source of management fee revenues.

The gap between college graduates going into lucrative positions and those going into more normal positions is exploding. We've not seen a time in living memory when so many young people made so much money, and some peers are wondering what they have in common anymore.

The medium-heavy truck market can be lucrative when the business is booming, but we are currently heading into a downturn.

I make a great deal of money from 40 Wall St.. Aside from owning the most beautiful building in lower Manhattan, I have the added attraction of owning a particularly lucrative one.

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.