Apple sells a three-pack of such bulbs, made by Philips, with the hardware to operate them for about $200.
They could build them, and operate them for a set number of years, until their investment pays out, and then transfer them to full U.S. ownership.
Foreigners will even be allowed to build rail lines and operate them for up to 22 years before turning them over to the government.
The German government will contribute unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and a group of specialists to operate them for us within Iraq.
Then, inevitably, come the bitter afterthoughts, and talk of Japan's harsh colonial regime, which built the rails and operated them for Japan's profit.
A Nigerian firm had been operating them for multinationals, until millions of dollars disappeared in a deal gone bad, and the state seized the assets.
The league acted to keep the Ottawa Senators and the Buffalo Sabres in place when they went bankrupt early in the decade, and it bought the Coyotes out of bankruptcy and has operated them for a year and a half while pledging to keep them in the Phoenix area.
Clever hedge-fund organisers may seed many funds, operate them for a few years, then announce in public only the most successful ones, "backfilling" the performance data from prior periods ie, projecting what the fund might have earned before it existed if it had pursued the same strategy.
Or here's a case in point: the Obama administration, even as it negotiated the new climate agreement, is flirting with lifting the longstanding ban on oil exports, which would be the equivalent of opening a hundred-odd new coal-fired power plants and operating them for a year.
Then, in collaboration with Bombardier, it will be responsible for putting the trains to work and operating them for 15 years.
