Are we going to have a budget on time?' 'No, the Senate is an ass and the Assembly's an ass, and they're all asses.' The budget winds up four months late, five months late".
The House of Representatives panel that funds NIH has questioned the reorganization; even if Senate budgeteers are more supportive, NIH's 2012 budget may wind up being part of a continuing resolution, a bill that extends funding from a previous year.
As the magazine Budget Travel winds its way through bankruptcy court and its lawyers insist that its staff stop working, the Web site continues to chug along with periodic posts by Robert Firpo Cappiello.
In addition to council-funded museums feeling the pinch, the government has cut Renaissance in the Regions funding, slashed the Arts Council budget and wound down all central support for "non-national museums".
Marco Pinotti, the current Italian national time-trial champion who rides for Team Columbia-Highroad, acknowledges the special equipment has benefited him, but he also says that it gives an unfair advantage to teams with large budgets for wind-tunnel testing and sophisticated equipment.
Climate models suggest that small island states will experience warmer temperatures and changes in rainfall, soil moisture budgets, prevailing winds (speed and direction), and patterns of wave action.
The consequences of increased climate variability for small island states are likely to be related to changes in rainfall, soil moisture budgets, prevailing winds (speed and direction), and patterns of wave action.
But I'd rather we spent the budget in the wind tunnel.
The budget will put wind in the sails of business investment, especially for manufacturers.
John Cridland, director-general of the employers' organisation the CBI, said the budget would "put wind in the sails of business investment", especially for manufacturers: "This was a make-or-break budget, coming at a critical time in the recovery, and the chancellor has focused his firepower on areas that have the potential to lock in growth".
