Still, this seems like a myopically small fraction of the budget to be devoted to an item normally regarded as a sine qua non of luxury travel.
An influential senator had called for 60percentt of the National Science Foundation's budget to be devoted to strategic research, in areas such as high performance computing, biotechnology, materials science, and manufacturing [ 25], and the White House had taken up the challenge in its guidance for the budget process [ 26].
Commendable shows of leadership have been made by Kofi Annan himself, who initiated the fund by personally donating $100,000 of prize money from his Philadelphia Liberty Medal, and by the governments of Sub-Saharan Africa, which set target commitments of 15% of their annual national budgets to be devoted to health sector improvements for HIV/AIDS at an April 2001 summit in Abuja, Nigeria.
David Baltimore argues for more of our budget surplus to be devoted to higher education and basic research, to guarantee that our universities continue their role as technological innovators (Op-Ed, Oct. 28).
But much of the budget is widely understood to be devoted to the design, construction and operation of satellites and other platforms used to collect images, signals and other forms of technical intelligence.
152 154), but none explicitly incorporates the alternative principle of working backward from the value of government expenditure required to meet basic needs, and only then determining how much (if any) of the public budget can be devoted to debt repayment [ 50- 52].
From September, 70% of the channel's education budget will be devoted to this age group.
In LA, one official has estimated that a third of the budget will be devoted to pension costs by 2015.Public sector pension funds have just followed the pattern of private sector schemes.
One official close to the budget process said that when the final budget proposal is unveiled in April, roughly half of the research and development budget will be devoted to missile defense.
When asked how much of the federal budget should be devoted to foreign aid, Americans typically come up with a number around 10percentt -- about 20 times what we currently spend.
As an essential start to revitalization, all NATO members must meet the defense-spending pledge made at the 2014 summit meeting in Wales — namely, 2percentt of gross domestic product should be spent on defense and 20percentt of each member's national defense budget should be devoted to major equipment and modernization.
