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Some critics have noted that the Pentagon funded the project to the tune of $3.7m£2.4m4m) in 2009.

And above all — and above it all — it has the Getty Center, on its Brentwood hilltop, which underwrote the project to the tune of about $10 million.

The proposal caught the eye of the European Union's cognition unit, which agreed to fund the project to the tune of €8.5m – and iCub was born.

The following year, the institute backed the project to the tune of $400,000 and put Mr. Dizdar in touch with Ben Woolford, a partner in an independent production company, Tall Stories.

"We'll be famed for computing as well as Jesus," quips Ramez Jaraisi, mayor of the city where Christ grew up.Stef Wertheimer, an octogenarian Israeli tycoon whose company produces cutting tools and who has financed the project to the tune of $22m, wants to get more Arabs into Israeli high-tech.

The internet entrepreneur has backed the project to the tune of €250,000 (£215,000), allowing scientists to grow enough meat in the lab to create a burger – as a proof of concept – that will be cooked and eaten in London on Monday.

This would be tantamount to a European New Deal.One might counter that the EIB may simply be unable or unwilling to conjure up 'shovel-ready' projects to the tune of €300 billion annually, both because it is worried about its creditworthiness and due to a lack of potentially profitable projects.

The BMBF alone has funded stem cell research projects to the tune of ?25 million since 1998.

Kickstarter's crowdfunding platform has funded 49,316 projects to the tune of $807m, revolutionising the way filmmakers, musicians and hardware companies raise money.

The larger Grand Opportunity competition, which drew more than 2000 applications (NIH was saying 2700 in June), funded 376 projects to the tune of $625 million in FY2010 (14% success rate if 2700 still stands).

While bragging, he could even take a swipe at rivals that Google was the strongest company in this regard, having purchased three gigawatts (3GW) of output from renewable energy projects to the tune of $3 billion in energy investments.