Now when we were privatized, there were those I'm sure who thought, It's a licence to print money.

Bob Crow, general secretary of the RMT trade union, said: "If anyone wanted concrete evidence that transport franchising in the UK is a licence to print money, then here it is.

The reason hedge funds are a license to print money is their fee structure.

Surely that would be a license to print money.

"The lease they gave the Yankees is a license to print money.

"Right now, it is a license to print money."

Owning a locked-in de facto standard can be a license to print money for a very long time.

Others think counting cards is a license to print money - just memorize a counting system and go start winning.

Renting houses out is a license to print money at the moment, with BTL mortgages on the up again who needs first time buyers to prop up the market.

He said that while he does not endorse the use of tobacco, "it's a license to print money," creating a very profitable business, and the company is also strong in its food business.

Anyone who thinks that just getting into the video-game business is a license to print money need only consider the history of Atari, and of how Bonnell came to own the name.

EVERY SO OFTEN, AN IDEA comes along that's so simple it's a license to print money.

With StarCraft 2 in stores and World of WarCraft continuing to be a license to print money, a company's fancy may turn towards a certain hack-and-slash game called Diablo 3.

There s a fair amount of ingenuity being demonstrated, and a spirit of creativity and risk-taking that our industry would have been wise to exhibit years ago, when a local news monopoly was a license to print money.

Today we have effectively given the big companies a licence to print money.

It's not a licence to print money any more - if it ever was.

People see music publishing as a licence to print money, which, to an extent, it is.

Any more is just a licence to print money.

Dome anyone; aircraft carrier, licence to print money known as railway sell off?

Have not the Government given the French-backed consortium a licence to print money?

Save by cancelling the investment banks licence to print money, and hidden subsidies for nuclear.

But until Wednesday, nothing had appeared that looked like being able to make a dent in Apple's licence to print money.

Now when we were privatized, there were those I'm sure who thought, It's a licence to print money.

An artistic licence to print money?

Franchising isn't a licence to print money.

A patent is, after all, a licence to print money for fourteen years - if your invention is a good one, that is.

The only people who will benefit from wind power are the fat cat industrialists who have been given a licence to print money by the government.

Everybody agrees that the water companies have a licence to print money, but last year was the driest on record and things looked dodgy for a while.

Another senior Tory MP, who did not want to be named, said the reforms were a "state licence to print money".

Developers will have state licence to print money and we will see a proliferation of identikit suburbs springing up in the countryside."

The only difference being that these firms have a consumer credit licence, which gives them a licence to print money on the backs of the poor.

Create artificial scarcity, as those pop bands manage to do so skillfully with nostalgic "one-off" reunions, and you have a licence to print money.

For many years, Microsoft seemed to have a licence to print money thanks to the almost universal adoption of its Windows software for PCs.

Roy Thomson, who ran Scottish Television famously described ITV as a "licence to print money".

Despite this, an early TV mogul, Roy Thomson, likened the broadcasting licence as being a "licence to print money".

If speed is of the essence - and all marketing surveys say it is - then the microwave is the manufacturers' version of the licence to print money.

FOLLOWING our POT LUCK feature has become a licence to print money in recent weeks.

In 1957, he launched a successful bid for the commercial television franchise for Central Scotland, named Scottish Television, which he was to describe as a "licence to print money".

NEW regulations governing the condition of windscreens have provided a licence to print money for MoT, testers according to one of the UK's leading insurance brokers, the Insurance Service.

They're looking at it as a license to print money.

They are almost a license to print money by the incumbents on their terms.

For some British newspapers, this is practically a license to print money.

I already knew a bit about money-laundering, and it looked to me like a license to print money.

"Does this guy have a license to print money?"

"It is not a license to print money, but they will come out all right," a rival publisher said.

It was not so long ago that Web portals were seen as a license to print money.

Surely that would be a license to print money.

"The lease they gave the Yankees is a license to print money.

The reason hedge funds are a license to print money is their fee structure.

This is the current state of commentary on a business that was once jokingly called a license to print money.

"Right now, it is a license to print money."

They had their own country, oil fields, a virtual license to print money, and they were throwing it all away.

Owning a locked-in de facto standard can be a license to print money for a very long time.

The Microsoft Corporation's dominant software business often seems like a license to print money.

Seems like a license to print money.

They haven't lost their license to print money, with many fund companies seeing annual returns on equity that still top 25 percent.

Local television has lost its image as "a license to print money," Mr. Smith said.

Even with the "tax" of Blizzard discovering these accounts and banning them, this is essentially a license to print money.

"It was," a Manila banker put it, "a license to print money."

Others think counting cards is a license to print money - just memorize a counting system and go start winning.

But running a club without liquor is not a license to print money, Mr. Leone advised.

As von Lohmann points out, this isn't a license to print money.

The sequel is virtually a license to print money, which says more about the British cinemagoing public than the quality of the first film.