Mr. Klein declined to offer revenues, but said that the partners did not need to go back to the restaurant's investors to pay for the transformation.
The plan, in essence, is to pay for the transformation with the cashflow from PCs, which still bring in more than 60% of revenue.
A $4.2 million bond, on the ballot here in November, would pay for the transformation in time for the 2013 school year, even if the old schools had not yet sold or been leased.
Optimists note that Japan still has an ample trade surplus and foreign-exchange reserves, and a high savings rate that can be harnessed to pay for the transformation of the economy into, say, a leader in renewable energy.
In the last decade or so, Friends of the High Line has collected millions of dollars from wealthy people and corporations to help pay for the transformation of an elevated rail line into a mile-long park just blocks from Hudson River Park.
There is also an added dimension: before the crisis struck in 2008 growth levels and profits from the then booming financial services sector filled Treasury coffers with tax receipts that paid for the transformation of public services – services we often sought to manage from the centre with targets and league tables.
But our citizens and our workers are also tired of being the only ones paying for the transformation to a more sustainable way of production.
To deliver this will, however, require that people be convinced that they will benefit and that there is the money to pay for such a transformation.
Civilian Pentagon officials and military officers agreed that a central friction in the review was over how much risk the armed forces could accept, if the nation had to go to war today, to pay for the future transformation as envisioned by Mr. Rumsfeld and President Bush.
The price to pay for PDGF induced transformation, in a context of limited genetic events, is that although the transformed cell population grows, this growth is slow, probably limited by the effects of neighboring senescent cells.
