Mr. Bloomberg's proposed budget for the coming fiscal year would slash $1.27 million from the appropriation given in years past for the Sexual Assault Response Team, which operates in 11 city hospitals in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.
It's the second slice of funding made possible by a $400 million appropriation given ARPA-E earlier this year in the $787 billion stimulus package.
Now to your point about the problem with claiming "appropriation" given gay men's contributions to black women's cultural production: Beyoncé, NeNe Leeks, Tyra Banks, and whomever else you name in your article.
The writer Raphaël Glucksmann, a prominent critic of the French far right, told me that such selective appropriations have given Benoist "a huge authority among white nationalists and Fascists everywhere in the world".
The fourth category includes appropriation — giving an existing text a new form.
But Mr. Kerry's pronouncement that he was proud of the vote against the $87 billion appropriation gave the war room something to attack.
The 2008 finalists — Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes — are making new inroads into the tired strategy of appropriation, giving it a new delicacy that includes the temporary matings of images and objects.
Last year, the Canadian government axed its $2 million annual appropriation, gave notice that it planned to start tearing down structures in September, shifted its staff of 16 to the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg, and hired security guards to keep scientists off the site after 31 March.
The appropriation "gives us a substantial amount of the funds to move it forward," with hopes for reopening the 30,000-square-foot, single-story building in its new incarnation by 2016, said Karly Katona, a deputy to Ridley-Thomas who is working on the arts center.
Not too much can be read into today's overwhelming 400-21 House approval of the appropriations bill, given that few members would be willing to hold up financing for government programs for something that essentially affects only four networks.
