A quarter of these contracts went to offshore companies – state funds flying abroad, of no benefit to UK employment or tax revenues.
As the naturalists who might do so are themselves becoming rarer and rarer, it is hard not to regret the funds flying to the untestable reaches of space, when so much remains to be discovered among real, living, carbon-based organisms here on boring old Earth.
Bill Clinton, newly re-elected, "may well have set a record for political travel" in 1997 as he flew to fund-raisers to erase Democrats' debt, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Just look at what happened when investors bought into high-flying funds such as Van Wagoner Emerging Growth, Janus Olympus and Fidelity Aggressive Growth at their peaks in early 2000.
Romney accused Obama of flying off on fund-raising trips the day after the Benghazi killings.
The businessman, David Chang, contacted an aircraft charter company, and soon the candidate was flying from one fund-raising event to the next by Lear jet and propeller plane.
Seventh child of Kentucky dairy farmers opened hamburger stand to fund flying lessons after hearing radio broadcast of Lindbergh's 1927 transatlantic flight.
While many funds are still flying high, the average hedge fund has lost more than 4percentthis yearaccordingding to Hedge Fund Research, putting the industry on course for its worst year on record.
PAGE B1 HIGH HOPES FOR HEDGE FUNDS While hedge funds are not flying as high as they were in the recent past, investors interviewed in an industry survey by Deutsche Bank said they believed that hedge funds would post returns of 5 to 10percentt for 2009 -- besting the broader financial markets.
Many a stock fund flew high in the New Era bull market and then crashed.
Today, in two appearances in Las Vegas before flying here for a fund-raiser, Mr. Gore stuck carefully to script.
