Identifying those at risk of failure well in advance of their examination allows residents and program directors the time and stimulus to make any necessary training adjustments.
According to Lakshman Achuthan, its managing director, exports and prompt policy stimulus could still avert a formal downturn.
Now it's thinking big, planning to tackle other cities. "We have a lot of infrastructure that wasn't there before," said the executive director, Tom Kamber, noting that federal stimulus funds had helped build 3,000 computer labs around the country.
Raynard Kington, NIH acting director, said that because the stimulus-funded grants will lead to new advances and ideas, NIH expects a rise in applications in 2011.
"I don't see coordinated fiscal stimulus happening," said Mark Hallerberg, director of the Fiscal Governance Center at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
"The stimulus is on track," Lawrence H. Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council, said Wednesday in an interview.
As budget director, Mr Orzsag helped shape the first stimulus package and, more visibly, the health-care reform legislation.
"Web sites may advertise that they can help you get money from the stimulus fund," Eileen Harrington, the acting director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the commission, said.
Responding to the stimulus announcement, CBI Scotland assistant director David Lonsdale said: "The finance secretary is right to highlight the economic benefits of infrastructure investment.
Even though Romer reportedly argued for a $1.2 trillion stimulus, Larry Summers, then the incoming director of the National Economic Council, included only lower figures in his materials for the president.
