We owe a huge thanks to this year's festival organizing team, as well as the MIT Media Lab Student Committee, the Office of the Dean of Graduate Students, and Media Arts and Sciences, who underwrote it.
It was, and to this day remains, an astonishing success and a great gift from the taxpayers who underwrote it, not from the Orioles to Baltimore.
The companies offering insurance tend to be rather anonymous: Customers are more likely to know the name of the agent who sold their policy to them than the carrier who underwrote it.
It aims to create an entirely electronic business-to-business marketplace to facilitate the complex processes that take place between the brokers and agents who sell insurance and the carriers who underwrite it.
Decades of well-placed political spending, along with strong-arm lobbying and a relentless campaign to fan fears that the government wants to confiscate rifles from hunters, has made the NRA and the gun manufacturers who underwrite it an almost mythological force in the minds of too many of our elected officials.
But it needs to carry with it the licence fee payers who underwrite its ambitions.
If it gives a big new loan to a country whose policies are too timid, in its view, to stabilise the economy, it is failing in its duty to member-governments and, ultimately, to the taxpayers around the world who underwrite its resources.
First, five banks who underwrote its IPO provided their initial coverage today.
White people who voted for Trump decided to invest in a president who underwrites white supremacy in the guise of populism.
"In this case check who underwrites the policy – this is the company paying in the event of a claim," says Tarling.
Mr. Rosenkranz, who underwrites much of the cost for the evenings, said he wants to provoke serious discussion on important issues, something he believes is missing from the public discourse.
