(She participated in Frieda Mock's "Anita," while he granted lots of access to R.J. Cutler for "The World According to Dick Cheney").
Granted, lots of its flower stalks were lost, snapped in half just on the verge of opening, but the crop wasn't totally devastated.
Granted, lots of phones allow for interchangeable batteries, but none let you pop 'em in to the slider dock.
With "Stoked" finally on her résumé, Ms. Stickler, who said she had invested $500,000 of her own money into the film (savings, "some grants and lots of credit cards"), is already scouting out new projects.
Traditional fundraising takes too much time and offers too little money, as foundations offer too many small, short-term grants with lots of strings attached.
But these things require government land grants and money, lots of it.
In the past, he said, DOE tended to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on big projects—such as fusion experiments or demonstration projects—or spread the money around into very small grants to get lots of scientists involved.
That mistrust manifests itself in different ways, this being one of them, because when it comes to granting the government lots of police and investigative power, conservatives appear to trust the government a great deal more than liberals.
Granted, a lot of other things happened that day.
"Granted, a lot of that has to depend on these young arms," Wright said.
