It was to be endowed with £200m a year and in, a tightly drawn set of circumstances, it would allow patients access to very expensive drugs.
As Rachel Sylvester puts it in the Times (paywall), this cabinet is full of clever people, but less well endowed with sensible ones.
She is the chief executive of the Barrow Cadbury Trust, an endowed foundation which has strong Quaker roots and works through a variety of means to achieve socially just structural change.
That endowed its 22,000-strong mission, one of the world's largest and most costly, with a new sense of purpose.
In 2004, Mr Ross gave $100m towards a new building and endowed operations for the business school, which was renamed in his honour.
The first depicts a sperm penetrating an egg; the final portrays a 46-foot-tall baby endowed with what may be the first penis on public display here.
Instead it indexes losses carried forward by an arbitrary bond rate plus 7%, which is a subsidy for very well endowed mines and a tax on high risk mines.
A voice-over in one said Mr Gardner had sponsored a bill to "make abortion a felony, including in cases of rape and incest" and had "championed an eight-year crusade to outlaw birth control .The ad was referring to Mr Gardner's support for a so-called "personhood" ballot measure, which would have endowed fetuses with the same rights as people from the moment of conception.
Its balance-sheet is stronger, which means HP's offspring can be endowed with the means to flourish on their own.
A COUPLE of days ago, I went to Cambridge University to hear the inaugural lecture by the freshly appointed holder of an important new post: a chair in the study of the Abrahamic faiths (in other words, of the history and inter-relationship of Judaism, Christianity and Islam) endowed by Sultan Qaboos of Oman.Some frank disclosure is in order.
Kids endowed with this sort of home environment tend, not surprisingly, to do well in school and go on to study at university.Mainstream public schools, however are awash with children from homes in which education is a low priority and where the home environment actually inhibits academics.
