Grant money and the security it affords individuals and institutions drive institutions to emphasize research, sometimes at the expense of other urgent but less lucrative endeavors.
Coaxing states in the direction of success, so that relatively clean institutions drive out the dirtiest ones, may be the most realistic goal.
With banks under severe pressure throughout the continent, countries as diverse as the Netherlands and Italy as well as Luxembourg, Sweden and the Czech Republic said a financial transaction tax, levied on dealings in shares, bonds and derivatives, could damage institutions, drive them out of the EU and raise borrowing costs.
In spite of the fact that financial institutions drove the nation into the economic ditch, and even though "very few of us had anything to do with the dilemma that they have created for themselves," the financial industry received billions, with few strings attached.
The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) is a nationally validated system that uses clinically abstracted data on surgical patients and their outcomes to assist participating institutions drive quality improvement.
But for all that, Mr. Wolfe said, Mr. Papp established the Public Theater as an institution driven largely by "the cult of personality," and he added that he was committed to carrying on that tradition.
Is this institution driven purely by profit or by some more socially responsible motive of service to the poor?
Yet to judge by Page One, the Times remains a vital institution driven by a group of tough-minded journos determined to shed light on crucial stories.
That is, the additional reporting requirements that come along with raising money from public institutions drives VCs to "easier" sources of funding, such as sovereign wealth and billionaire family offices.
