Vicky Whittemore, the agency's CFS point person in Bethesda, Maryland, delivered on a promise that NIH Director Francis Collins made last year by announcing that NIH spending for research on the poorly understood disease should rise to roughly $15 million in 2017, doubling the estimated $7.6 million handed out in 2016.
There was initial pushback when Google launched Gmail, making it free when other email systems were paid-for, by announcing that machines would read your messages so targeted ads could be delivered.
He surprised many political observers early this year by announcing that rather than run for the Senate, he would seek another House term.
The Cardinals reacted to the arrest by announcing that Dwyer has been suspended for this week's games against the 49ers.
Home Depot, the planet's dominant home improvement chain, made news this week by announcing that 3D printing machines would be for sale at a dozen of their locations.
Another got closer to a better answer, I think, by announcing that liberal arts "stretch the mind for the sake of stretching the mind" and that "Singapore has a tradition of elites that start from fundamentals and rethink everything".
Over the winter, it followed up by announcing that instead of providing the 2012 vintage for sale this spring, it would offer remaining bottles of the 1995 Latour.
Last week, it was the turn of New York State's crackerjack attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, who threaded the needle deftly by announcing that while it remains illegal for gays to get married in New York, gay marriages performed legally elsewhere are legal here, too.
The EU general affairs council, chaired by Jack Straw, responded to the Andijan massacre by announcing that it would, for a short time, "suspend further deepening" of the EU-Uzbek cooperation agreement.
He's already taken a step in the right direction by announcing that NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia is a possibility.
