Wade Robertson, a Texas landowner who restored prairie grouse habitats on his property with the help of a federal grant, summed up this approach to a member of my staff.
Patent numbers in Japan from 2004 to 2013 (b) contain patent disclosure, patent application (sum of domestic and foreign) and patent granted (sum of domestic and foreign).
A box? Which may grant large sums of money?
Instead of receiving an unrestricted dollar flow from Washington, states were now given block grants, fixed sums totaling $16.5 billion a year.
Government agencies and foundations spend tens of billions of dollars each year on research at universities, typically granting large sums to principal investigators, who use some of the money to support masters students and Ph.D. candidates.
In 1572 disliking the scenes as each woman tried to secure a piece of the royal gown, Queen Elizabeth granted a sum of £1 to each recipient in lieu of the gown, giving it in a red purse.
So the mill trundles on and accepts a ten million dollar loan here, a ten million dollar grant there; smaller sums less likely to raise the public's ire above the general low din.
She explained that the matching funds program — unlike a lump sum grant to candidates — sensibly adjusted the amount disbursed so that it was neither too little money to attract candidates nor too large a drain on public coffers.
