Granted, preparing the repertory for this program, a mix of familiar works by Beethoven, Bernstein and Manuel de Falla, probably required little exertion.
This isn't really free money from the government - finding a grant, preparing the necessary documentation, meeting with the right government officials and then reporting on your progress all takes many hours.
The final design for the Whitehall project, which is being financed partly by federal and state grants, was prepared by Schwartz Architects.
He was then granted bond, prepared for his trial and then saw it end nearly as quickly as it began.
Mr. Siewert played down reports that the Justice Department was concerned that Mr. Braswell's pardon might affect the current investigation by pointing to a pardon grant letter prepared by the office of pardons that cites only the 1983 case.
The consortium was led by Prof. Mohamed R. Daha who had already guided a preceding European grant which prepared the ground for this endeavor to create a novel and sophisticated complement measurement tool.
(Since this story first appeared, however, Science has learned that Leonhardt received a first draft of a PowerPoint presentation about the grant proposal, prepared on his behalf. Leonhardt also helped present the slides to a committee in Beijing).
Under the bill, states would get $1.5 billion in federal grants to prepare for a biological attack.
Last year, in the wake of the anthrax attacks, the Bush administration awarded states $1.1 billion in grants to prepare for bioterrorism.
Now Senators Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, and Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, are planning to introduce legislation that would authorize federal grants to prepare educational materials and train health professionals to conduct visits to prescribing physicians.
