His patent proposition raises a host of questions, not least, why would anyone deliberately set out to create a patent lawyers' picnic?
In December, after the price of a single bitcoin rocketed to more than nineteen thousand dollars, Novogratz told me that "it would be a different proposition raising a crypto hedge fund today than it was three months ago".
He said the charity could not afford a loan so he brought an amendment to his own proposition raising the trust's contribution from £2m to 50% of the cost up to £3m.
The most obvious one is to empirically test the propositions raised in this study.
The backers of Proposition 37 raised only $9.2 million, mainly from the organic and natural foods business.
With their contribution, proponents of the proposition have raised $8.2 million, with $7.9 million coming from energy companies, most of them out of state.
Backers of the measure, Proposition 71, raised and spent $25 million on slick television commercials and direct-mail advertising to promote the research, which researchers hope provides the key to cures for diseases like diabetes and Alzheimer's.
The Obama administration legal team wrestled with whether it would be lawful to make Mr. Awlaki a target for death — a proposition that raised complex issues involving Mr. Awlaki's constitutional rights as an American citizen, domestic statutes and international law.
The main coalition in favor of Proposition 47 raised $7 million as of mid-October, buoyed by contributions from the likes of Hughes, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and a foundation backed by the financier George Soros.
