endowment
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Word that Yale, which has a $44 billion endowment and vast legal resources, was in talks with the Trump administration generated outcry on campus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The civil grand jury recommendation comes as the city remains in a legal dispute over a $50-million endowment with the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Assn., a longtime fundraising partner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Declining endowment returns, in addition to financial pressures caused by higher endowment taxes and cuts in federal funding, may have contributed to this decision.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
As Tuohey indicated, the policy change reflects financial strains affecting the endowment, which supports 65% of the university’s operating budget.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Soon afterward, Kenneth M. Olsen and Barbara A. Schaal of Washington University in St. Louis demonstrated that domesticated manioc’s genetic endowment was derived from flabelli-folia, suggesting the latter was ancestral to it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
“What happened during that period was that a consensus emerged,” Eustis said, noting that it was expressed in the form of national endowments, state arts agencies, public policy institutes and corporate philanthropic departments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In “Notes on the State of Virginia” he acknowledged that in endowments of the heart—he cited integrity, benevolence, gratitude and fidelity—nature “will be found to have done them justice.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
From longtime executives to short-term employees, college endowments and venture-capital firms, all stand to benefit from their stakes in the rocket maker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Many schools’ investments in SpaceX make up a low-single-digits percentage of their endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
His endowments were of a purely physical order—a 4.4 speed in the forty, a skillful ability to play both defensive back and running back, a reputation for hard, tireless work on the held.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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