"I build puppets seven days a week, and perhaps it's 12 hours a day - it depends how much it's needed," Mrs Wright said.
The more I talk about this with people, the more I realize how much it's needed.
Surely I could get the beauty of this position across to Lannin, its implication that whatever popularity the method has reflects only how much it's needed.
Without accurate temperature and soil data, it is impossible to calculate how much moisture or sun a plant needs and how much it is likely to get.
Maybe the most significant task is to acknowledge there is an addiction issue in the first place -- then at least the Fed might stand a fighting chance of identifying the correct antidote, how much of it is needed, and when the course of treatment should start.
We put it on the Web site and say, "Here's the product, here's how much it's going to cost, but we need to sell X number of these before we actually push it into manufacturing".
Mr. Lipsky declined to specify how much it loses, or how much is needed from new investors, but he said each figure was "some tens of millions of dollars".
Try it on yourself first to discover how much pressure is needed; it doesn't take much to cause discomfort.
No matter how much money is needed, it will be hard to come by.
No one knows how much money is needed, and it might have been better to raise it in another way—say, by deeper cuts in other public spending (the finance minister, Hans Eichel, has promised to find euro250m in savings), or by issuing bonds and raising the necessary taxes over several years.Politically, however, it looks spot-on.
