Only a quarter to a third of these proposals are ever funded.
If there was ever a legendary fund, it's Sequoia (SEQUX), managed by New York-based Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb.
Yet no such funding was ever made available, despite the Premiership getting what it wanted, another bonanza of £1.6bn, including overseas rights.
The controversy over Delphi's two-tiered pension outcome may foreshadow a similar policy decision that Congress must make in the coming months, over whether to appropriate money to NASA to cover the cost of a promise it made in 1996, to top up the pensions of its primary space shuttle contractor, United Space Alliance of Houston, if its pension fund was ever terminated.
Despite the continued designs and interest in the idea, no funding was ever appropriated for the construction of a flight-deck cruiser; in addition, evaluation of the design by the Naval War College determined that even a 12,000-ton ship was too small for the concept's intended characteristics to be effectively realized, and thus the ship would be ineffective in battle.
But if there was ever a time for these funds, 2000 and early 2001 has been it.
There is no evidence that the full $20,000 from confiscated property sold at auction in September was ever deposited into the Sequestration Fund in Richmond.
"The first project I ever funded was crayons — a teacher wanted sixty-four packs of crayons for her kindergarten kids.
It would seem that essential part of biomedical research is not sufficiently scheduled and predictable for being planned, realized and ever funded.
The man who financed the American War of Independence was a Welshman, Roger Morris, which is ironic because no one ever funded Wales's various attempts at independence during the last two thousand years or so.
