But even that vast sum of taxpayer lucre cannot will the necessary innovations into being.
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On return the lucre would pay for goods destined for Lisbon and silks for the next voyage to Nagasaki.
Gates' own source of lucre, the personal computer industry, worked that way, too.
And it was not the lure of lucre that secured her services for the BBC Radio 4 drama series, V.
Middlesex chief executive Vinny Codrington admitted he will not impede the path of any player offered irresistible lucre on the subcontinent.
They are appalled, says the city's most famous chronicler, Suketu Mehta, that Mumbai stands for "lucre, profane dreams and indiscriminate openness".
Why, that would be all those speculators, driven purely by their own greed and desire for lucre, producing the price signals that lead to this resource allocation.
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But if it is given voluntarily, the lucre is filthy.
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It was a tantalising prospect of a lot of lucre looking out from the front of a Sunday paper this past weekend, potentially transforming the debate on Scotland's economic future.
Romney is almost an incarnation of the establishment, from his well-manicured rallies to his tightly organised campaign lubricated with plenty of lucre, from his past as a successful businessman to his career as a problem-solving politician.
But what I am pointing to is the way in which in a market, price driven, system the entirely selfish pursuit of gelt and pelf, the desire purely for filthy lucre, brings about such a desirable result.
The companies involved in that market have recieved fresh scrutiny, however, since blogger Mike Arrington began publicly arguing that social games have become a conduit for scamsters and spammers to push their wares in social networks by enticing players with virtual lucre.
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