endowments

What amounts to an excess profits tax on endowments is being discussed.

Easter Lemming Liberal News 2008

Considering the collapse in endowments that has just happened, now is probably the wrong time to talk about endowment reform.

Matthew Yglesias » What To Do With Big Endowments 2008

Millions and millions of dollars in endowments revoked.

Heartbroken 2006

Millions and millions of dollars in endowments revoked.

September 2006 2006

Statistics are provokingly meager in endowments of schools for women in the Southland – indeed for women in all lands.

The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses 1893

You who value yourselves so much upon your wisdom and knowledge, who are so puffed up upon your extraordinary gifts and endowments, is there none among you fit for this office, none that has wisdom enough to judge in these differences?

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

Anyway, that book certainly supported the idea of comparative advantgage from low wages when caused by unequal factor endowments, which is what I think most laymen have in mind.

Ricardo's Difficult Idea Eludes Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Setting aside the fact that raising all that money would be next to impossible, one big problem I can see with the notion of endowments is that it would put the newsroom squarely in alignment with the interests of Wall Street.

Endowing every U.S. newspaper: $114 billion. Innovation: Priceless. » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

"Since you have such a good opinion of my sincerity," said Longarine, "I will relate an anecdote of a great prince who surpassed in endowments all the princes of his time.

The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

And again, the apostle, in the same Epistle to the Corinthians, writes: "That is not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural:" that is, the endowments of the soul precede the endowments of the spirit.

Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series Frederick W. Robertson