The letters sharply criticize the bill's emphasis on a few disciplines and its attack on social science research, take exception to changes in NSF's grantsmaking processes, and cite other provisions that they warn will weaken the nation's overall research enterprise.
However, its greater significance may be for the local elections, to be held simultaneously with the general election on May 1st.The elections take place for most of the shire county councils in England ("most" because there are exceptions thanks to changes in the structure of local government).
It has also been shown that while divergence in patterns of embryogenesis between related taxa often appears to be constrained during "phylotypic" stages early in development, there are a host of exceptions often related to changes in the external environments experienced during development (Wray 2000; Garfield and Wray 2009).
The only exception to colour morph changes occurring within nymphal stages are changes to black colouration, which have been reported to occur during the imaginal stage [ 14].
But rather than embrace the turnover as a chance to make change, we have exceptions to the old-white-man rule: The Natural Resources Defence Council has a woman president in Frances Beinecke, but she just announced her retirement.
However, some cases do not obey this rule; these exceptions occurred due to change in other parameters.
These biases are generally found in regions with soil moisture-limited ET regimes, with a few exceptions, and tend to change sign in the warm season in midlatitude regions.
And as an added bonus to fans, the season premiere will be written by Stephen King. "Under the Dome" is based on King's novel, but some fans have taken exception to the many changes show runner Brian K. Vaughn has made to the story to adapt it to TV.
That won't change "longstanding historical exceptions," OMB acknowledges, but it should "properly limit these exceptions to help ensure they are justified when they occur".
The only hint of an exception to this anti-change message from the Republicans appears in occasional rhetoric--and it is only rhetoric--from John McCain.
