Estimates are $1.8 billion to $2.9 billion to finish developing the engine, which is 70 percent complete.
Her singers come in, and they finish developing the picture: "You were so just, looking across the sky".
Begun with a $20 million investment from a Taiwanese businessman, the company went public in December 1996, raising enough money to finish developing the Jetcruzer.
Some seeds are not fully mature when they leave the tree and need a warm or cool period to finish developing.
To finish developing the Dream Chaser would require less than $1 billion, Mr. Sirangelo said, and it could be ready to fly an orbital test flight in three years.
Pentagon officials have estimated that it could cost $2 billion to $3 billion to finish developing the engine, which Mr. Gates and President Obama say the military cannot afford.
Pentagon officials recently estimated that it would cost $2.9 billion over the next six years to finish developing the G.E. and Rolls-Royce engine and create the tooling to produce it.
MAGUIRE PROPERTIES, Los Angeles, the owner of offices in downtown Los Angeles, said it had bought for $215 million a 90-acre property in Orange County, Calif., that it planned to finish developing over the next five to seven years.
But the company needs a $1.5 billion cash injection to cover debt payments and finish developing cars already in the pipeline, a senior DaimlerChrysler official said, and the parent company's managers are divided over whether to supply it.
American companies did not even come look at the technology, so NatCore reached a deal with a consortium of Chinese companies to finish developing its invention and mass-produce it in Changsha, China.
