| Ticket buyers aren't buying, donors are waiting, funders are thinning out, endowments are earning less. |
| This could be grim news for millions of consumers whose life savings are invested in pensions, endowments and other savings contracts. |
| They feel no obligation to cultivate people, so convinced are they that their magical endowments should inspire worship. |
| Underlying this contrast is the idea that knowledge, unlike belief, requires special endowments. |
| These kings were generous in their endowments to the temple in the 14th and 15th centuries. |
| They would also give top universities massive endowments to free them from state interference. |
