Or an unmanned, and thus cheaper, shuttle could take large pieces of the station into orbit, while people could reach the station on expendable craft.
Chinese companies have been able to grow so fast, and cut costs so quickly, because they could take large loans from government-owned banks.
I spoke to the company today and it indicated that it expects this form of protection to become as common as SSL in the coming years, though it could take longer for larger firms to follow in its footsteps.
Mr. Pike said that larger, stationary and more powerful Stinger platforms and antiaircraft batteries could take out larger planes, but "they would be stationed in the streets and stick out like a sore thumb".
But the Constitution is also a flexible document, and there's a good chance that the federal government could take a larger role in preserving the fairness of elections if Congress wanted to establish one.
"It has focused on its other lines, such as handsets, but given attention and resources, it could take a larger share of the music player market," says Susan Kevorkian, a director of consumer market research at IDC.
During the toughest economic times over the past several years, the hospitality industry realized that bad experiences for customers could take on larger importance - like losing business down the road, not only at one hotel, but at an entire chain.
Anyone who has ever attempted to write something, or begun a large, important project, will know that hope itself can be crippling – the ideal form it could take looms large, even inhibiting us from beginning.
It could take a large slice of the asset-management business, have a stake in retail banking and disengage itself from the rest of the banks' activities.
