None of us choose our genetic ancestors, or our genetic endowments and deficiencies. |
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Genetic endowments may be responsible for native intelligence, tenacity, cunning and will. |
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In addition, university endowments provide a huge source of capital for corporations. |
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Ticket buyers aren't buying, donors are waiting, funders are thinning out, endowments are earning less. |
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Underlying this contrast is the idea that knowledge, unlike belief, requires special endowments. |
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The majority of their investors are financial institutions, pension funds, endowments and universities. |
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This increase also could better support faculty development, student retention, facilities and endowments, he said. |
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The extent and pattern of trade among nations has not been determined simply by differences in endowments of natural or human resources. |
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Eleven schools have awards endowed and several more indicated plans to seek endowments. |
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Charitable tax deductions in effect make government a large donor to university endowments. |
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This could be grim news for millions of consumers whose life savings are invested in pensions, endowments and other savings contracts. |
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These kings were generous in their endowments to the temple in the 14th and 15th centuries. |
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They would also give top universities massive endowments to free them from state interference. |
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Most experts advise people against topping up their endowments, as this is seen as throwing good money after bad. |
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They've sold some right horrors over the years, such as ropey endowments and high charging managed funds. |
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The smooth-talking, shiny-suited salespeople who sold endowments expected to be paid handsomely for their efforts. |
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You'll never be able to compete with somebody in terms of the talents and endowments that they have. |
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These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung, usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory. |
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Life assurers did us no favours by introducing with-profit, unitised with-profit and low-cost endowments. |
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It has cut the final bonuses on its with-profits endowments and pension plans for the second time this year. |
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Tens of thousands of people who were mis-sold endowments are having their claims unfairly rejected by insurance companies and banks. |
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She tells him that he and Laura are unusual and full of natural endowments and so capable of grand success if they would just try for it. |
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He acknowledges there is room for improvement in single premium pensions and endowments. |
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They feel no obligation to cultivate people, so convinced are they that their magical endowments should inspire worship. |
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Canada has higher biomass endowments relative to its population than most other countries. |
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So I was poking around the Chronicle's annual survey of endowments. |
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It was feared these endowments might not mature with enough money in the pot to pay off the mortgages, leaving people with a substantial shortfall. |
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Such endowments have helped make higher education one of the nation's crown jewels. |
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This is a really good explanation of what we do with these cosmic endowments, but it also comes with a good point to meditate on. |
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Many museums were founded through private benefaction, and a few have endowments that help to support their routine operation. |
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Upon the whole, then, the great argument for literary endowments is founded on the want, or the weakness of the natural appetency for literature in our species. |
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Our natural endowments and our sense of purpose as a country have always focussed us on the future. |
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Reinvested endowment income consists of the accumulated income generated from endowments less accumulated approved uses of those funds paid out. |
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Could these resources not be better used for scholarships, research, buildings and other nonathletic endowments? |
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If so, can the impact of the measure still be captured through an estimate of, say, higher transient income flows on capital endowments? |
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The level of regional economic development and the existence of large infrastructure endowments should thus be taken into account. |
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Funds received for endowments are invested in bonds and are carried at amortized cost. |
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Financial endowments are needed to pay for operations as well as equipment. |
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One such change relates to the realization of capital gains from endowments. |
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With its focus on endowments, donors can be assured that their funds will provide support for the community forever. |
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This being said, however, many organizations are trying to establish endowments in order to provide greater financial flexibility and stability. |
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We also provide investment solutions directly to institutional clients, including pension plans, endowments and foundations. |
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He was instrumental in attracting funds to endow a visiting lectureship series and three professorships, the first such endowments in the College of Agriculture. |
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And many, of course, have substantial endowments to guarantee more income. |
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Clearly, every person enters the world with different natural endowments that fall along a distribution of emotional, cognitive and sensory capabilities. |
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Their first goal would be to force the university endowments to divest themselves of shares in these banks. |
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The regulator must prove not that some people were mis-sold endowments, but that the insurer did not implement and follow proper compliance procedures. |
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Harvard, Yale, and Stanford have shrunk the amount of their endowments allocated to private equity, which includes venture, for three straight years. |
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The potential damage is compounded by new proposals to cap tuition increases, at the very moment that both state support and endowments are plummeting. |
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This implies that the industrial activities of this sector are linked to geologically determined endowments of minerals which necessarily are geographically bound. |
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In conclusion, it should be noted that, while natural resource endowments can contribute significantly to economic growth and development in many countries, they are not infinite. |
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The system has been in place since 2007 when graduate endowments were abolished. |
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Encourage the creation of and contribution toward arts endowments. |
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Investors in Vivo VIII include pension funds, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, family offices, and fund of funds. |
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Firstly, some foundations and trusts have substantial endowments and distribute the income from investments to advance the mission of the foundation. |
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Although the endowments King Henry made were sizeable, they offered Edward little independence. |
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The Guardian's Keep it in the Ground campaign is calling on the world's two largest medical charities – the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust – to divest their endowments from fossil fuels. |
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Funding could also be based on compensation schemes, such as lotteries or specific taxes when it is granted through arts councils and similar bodies, special funds, endowments or through public-private partnerships. |
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The maldistribution of fertilizer stems partly from variations in natural endowments, but mainly it is a result of the inability of the developing countries to invest adequately in fertilizer production. |
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The material security of these communities depended on endowments and dowries, thereby closing them to poor women unless they could find a sponsor. |
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According to the World Bank, Pakistan has important strategic endowments and development potential. |
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Tertiaries are easier still. Investors who back private-equity firms typically pension funds, endowments and the like are less than happy with the rise of secondaries. |
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In a time of budget crunching and shrinking endowments, these workers are carrying more and more of the responsibility of delivering university programs and performing research. |
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The successful promotion of spin-offs comes through a combination of many factors, some related to the endowments of specific regions and institutions and some to management practices and regulatory situations. |
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Learned Brahmans were given endowments of land. |
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Workers with skill endowments below min j are under-skilled, workers with skill endowments between min j and max j are well-matched and workers with skill endowments above max j are over-skilled. |
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Prior to joining Sentry, Mr. Kim managed segregated accounts for high net worth, endowments and foundations for RT Investment Counsel, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. |
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Personal endowments can be designated toward specific areas or, if undesignated, used for top priorities agreed upon by the Institute and our Board of Directors. |
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Donations comprise its largest source of income, and it also relies heavily on the income from its various historic endowments. |
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It did not restore the vast church lands and endowments that had been seized during the revolution and sold off. |
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In addition to charging tuition fees, many also benefit from gifts, charitable endowments and charitable status. |
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When Henry VI founded the school, he granted it a large number of endowments, including much valuable land. |
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New monastic endowments from the nobility also declined in the 15th century. |
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Robinson argue that certain natural endowments gave rise to distinct colonial policies promoting either smallholder or coerced labor production. |
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In 1549 its endowments were seized by the Crown though the burgesses made representations that they should not be. |
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Investment income earned on the Museum's endowments is available for use in operations or other activities subject to approval by the Board of Trustees. |
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A number of countries, owing to their size or their uneven endowments of physical and human resources, are often unable to bring about a change in their economic situation if they have to rely only on themselves. |
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The second priority of Turkey, who has the strategic endowments that I just mentioned, is helping to build peace and prosperity in the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East. |
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Humans exhibit the full range of endowments, from the dull witted who never intuit, to those who are able to satisfy all or nearly all of their quests by means of intuition. |
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Some of the monasteries in his diocese were put under his protection by their abbots or abbesses, who were seeking someone to help protect their endowments. |
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From 389 to 393 he issued a series of decrees which led to the banning of pagan religious rites, and the confiscation of their property and endowments. |
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The commission proposed the creation of a national system of secondary education by restructuring the endowments of these schools for modern purposes. |
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The result was the Endowed Schools Act 1869, which created the Endowed Schools Commission with extensive powers over endowments of individual schools. |
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The established Church kept all the properties, buildings and endowments. |
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There were also institutions without endowments, called hostels. |
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We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. |
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