Sentences with phrase «funded by a fraction»

Once funded by a fraction of a percentage of NASA's budget, SETI has relied on private donors to maintain the interstellar dial tone since 1993 — courtesy of one senator, who killed any substantial SETI funding for the foreseeable future.

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When you invest in an index fund, it's like putting money into every single company tracked by that index, for just a tiny fraction of the cost.

It's my understanding that custody of funds would still be maintained by the user, but since only a fraction of the overall transactions would need to be settled on the blockchain, the cost of individual user transactions could be significantly reduced.

The tax cut for middle - class wage earners amounts to a fraction of 1 percentage point and will be funded by an increase in the rate for married taxpayers making more than $ 2 million a year and single taxpayers whose yearly income exceeds $ 1 million.

By vetoing 126 items in total, the senator said Cuomo sought to trim what he saw as unnecessary pork from the state budget, but Addabbo said the money was for old projects that never got all their previously promised cash and the local funding allocations were a fraction of the total $ 132.6 billion state budget.

Rogers noted that oil and gas money in June still accounted for a very small fraction of the $ 48 million raised by the campaign and by the Republican National Committee through its Victory Fund.

Findings from the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.

There are periodic evaluations, but a poor result means losing only a fraction of your funding, says Schuman, who previously held one of the plum positions in U.S. science: as an investigator funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute on a 5 - year contract.

They say their job to educate is made more difficult by state funding that's just a fraction of what New York is giving to public school students.

Securities held in passive funds, by definition, don't trade very much, and so they don't affect the price much, even if they comprise a significant fraction of the security's float.

Mutual fund shares can be bought in fractions of a thousandth of a share, and are not separately identifiable except by date of purchase.

Leverage also refers to seeking magnified percentage returns on an investment by using borrowed funds, margin accounts or securities which require payment of only a fraction of the underlying security's value (such as rights, warrants or options).

Look at Playtonic, founded by and staffed by former Rare employees: it's just a fraction of Rare, and it only went and did the highest - funded UK video game in Kickstarter history.

Developed by the San Francisco Arts Commission, a city agency, the Treasure Island plan entails spending nearly $ 50 million on artwork over a 20 - year period, with funding during that time coming from a «1 percent for art» program that collects a fraction of the new project's costs from the island's developers.

Some small fraction of funds have been «validated» in your sense by their past performance during some time period, say a few years.

Yet as we have shown, this «well funded» effort is the beneficiary of a tiny fraction of the quantity of cash available to, for example, the Carbon Trust (# 70 + million / year), whose aim is «to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy by working with organisations to reduce carbon emissions and develop commercial low carbon technologies».

Firstly, the premium charged by the insurer in the event of success is a fraction of the cost of a third - party funding success fee (reflecting the fact that the insurer does not pay cash out during the life of the claim).

Total Life Insurance Premium Earned — A major fraction of the premium earned by a life insurance company goes into the fund that is deployed to pay the insured when he / she files a claim.

Also known as stock funds, IDBI Equity funds» primary objective is capital growth by investing a majority of the funds in stocks and investing the smaller fraction in notes, bonds, and government securities.

Saga will essentially operate as a stablecoin backed by a so - called «variable fraction reserve» that is pegged to the International Monetary Fund's special drawing rights (SDR) basket.

That's still a fraction of the 4,782 rounds generated by global startup funding rounds.

A simple process where a film enthusiast can log into his account, add US$ 5.00 in value to his digital wallet (either by electronic funds transfer, an online credit / debit card transfer authorization, or by exchange of a fraction of a bitcoin or other cryptocurrency through an exchange), and then clicks to watch a film.

By bringing in a lender or equity partner, investors are able to fund these investments with just a fraction of the cash coming out of their own pockets.