In some countries patents can be granted even for new forms of plant or animal life developed through genetic engineering.
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WITH tax revenues falling, governments are tightening up on contracts with nonprofits and delaying or canceling new grants even though pleas for help are rising among social service agencies.
Nearly seventy N.G.O.s, specializing in human rights, legal aid, consumer rights, and environmental protection, that receive foreign grants — even if such grants account for just a small fraction of their funding — have been "exposed" as being engaged in political activity and put on the foreign-agents list.
Institutions could, if they chose (and if they could afford to) sponsor postdocs' applications for research grants, even if it meant changing how postdocs were categorized.
No exemptions were to be granted, not even for musical instruments or works of art, unless the article in question was more than a hundred years old.
Both President-elect Trump and Jeff Sessions, Trump's nominee for the role of attorney general, have been critical of Obama's use of executive power to grant clemency, even for long-serving non-violent inmates.
Another criticism has been the length of time it can take NRE to grant access, even for those who were willing/able to pay for the licence.
Yet while we may take this information for granted, even feel overwhelmed at times, for many in the world information is not easy to come by.
Though all three movies won Oscars, Willis was not granted even a nomination for them.
