Faced with a choice between defence of the status quo and political change to equip it for new times, it has eventually chosen the path of reform.
But nothing in the training of the English bar and bench had equipped it for the underground press, and when, in 1971, a largely unreadable magazine called Oz published a cartoon strip featuring Rupert Bear with an erection, its editors were treated as if they had committed treason.
The first investment under the "Billion for Buffalo" program is a grant to spend $15 million to build a new 40,000-square-foot laboratory at the medical campus, and $35 million more to equip it for high-tech companies, among them the Albany Molecular Research Institute, a contract pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and manufacturing company that Mr. Enstice helped to recruit.
But given that we are in the middle of the most far-reaching reform of the civil service in more than a generation – to equip it for the challenges of being more efficient, more digital, more capable, more open, more collaborative, more commercially astute – it is telling that our annual survey continues to portray a service that is a great place to work and with morale that has held up well.
Initially, he said, he used a kit from Greasecar.com, a manufacturer in Massachusetts, to convert one scooter, equipping it with separate tanks for pure vegetable oil and a mix of vegetable oil thinned with additives.
General Catalyst, which raised $500 million for a new fund in 2011, has been boosting its bench of enterprise talent, which should equip it well for the boom in enterprise investing in 2013 and the coming years.
"The nature and scale of the challenges facing our NHS – in particular the challenge of an ageing population – mean that additional money alone will not equip it properly for the future," he said.
Once the school was approved and private financing raised to build and equip it, organizers started looking for a location.
What that buyer would require is necessary funds for re-equipping it.
