The Defense Department's research arm, DARPA, is throwing an event around its "Electronics Resurgence Initiative," an effort to leapfrog existing chip tech by funding powerful but unproven new ideas percolating in the industry.
Thus even House Speaker Boehner calls the bill a "slush fund"; the powerful Iowa Farm Bureau suggests that direct payments end; and Glenn Beck is on the bandwagon.
The foundation was an innovative venture that helped make the matching funds concept a powerful fund-raising tool.
Councils certainly won't have funds for powerful ads to change the perception.
While there is no evidence to suggest Qatar's regime is directly funding Isis, powerful private individuals within the state certainly are, and arms intended for other jihadi groups are likely to have fallen into their hands.
Quoting a 2011 NRC publication, Prudent Practices in the Laboratory, it states, "When negligent or cavalier treatment of laboratory safety regulations jeopardizes everybody's ability to obtain funding, a powerful incentive is created to improve laboratory safety".
"When negligent or cavalier treatment of laboratory safety regulations jeopardizes everybody's ability to obtain funding, a powerful incentive is created to improve laboratory safety," states another NRC publication, the 2011 revision of the widely used Prudent Practices in the Laboratory.
Education Department officials can threaten these universities with the loss of billions of dollars in federal funds, a powerful, although rarely used, weapon.
Meanwhile, the community-organized "Run Ed Run" campaign, which generated 51,000 supporters and the Chronicle revealed to be funded by powerful interest groups, dismantled upon Lee's declaration.
It's simpler than that: you should be worried about the US government because it is huge and well funded and powerful and, most importantly, you don't know what it's doing.
