The Olympics' supporters argue that, even if they make a loss, the wider boost the games bring is worth it.
It will help ferry Russia's Arctic resources to Asian markets, and could one day be a wider boost to world trade.These exciting developments carry risks, however.
London, by contrast, is planning a 500-acre Olympic park, complete with athletes' village, indoor arenas and swimming pool, in the lower Lea Valley, an unloved bit of east London.The Olympics' supporters argue that, even if they made a loss, the wider boost the Games will bring would be worth it.
Beyond helping return a fund for investors, there's also a belief that the financial windfall of the IPO will make its way back into Japan's startup ecosystem to provide a wider boost for the country.
Whether deep underwater off a Spanish Mediterranean island, or on a patch of ice in the North Pole, or with a pair of pandas in China, the Global Goals are getting a planet-wide boost worthy of their first name.
The wide-ranging boost to bilateral relations stops just short of the full upgrade that was frozen after Israel's invasion of the Gaza Strip in January 2009.
The readily foreseeable consequences have included a triumph for state terrorism, more suffering for the victims and a wide-world boost for the death penalty.
Instead of Woods's stalking to a commanding lead at the halfway point, the tournament was thrown wide open, boosting the chances of a slew of contenders crowding the top of the leader board.
In places with bad roads, unreliable postal services, few trains and parlous landlines, mobile phones can substitute for travel, allow quicker and easier access to information on prices, enable traders to reach wider markets, boost entrepreneurship and generally make it easier to do business.
Then the World Wide Web boosted demand for broadband Internet access, and suddenly Levin looked like a seer.
At the end of 2007, the government introduced a delivery incentive scheme nation-wide to boost deliveries in public health facilities.
