But the Bush administration has spent more than $100 million on embryonic stem cell research in the past six years; the research, while promising, remains purely speculative; and American scientists hold a huge and steady lead that no other country comes close to challenging.
Pointing to the huge and steady growth in per-pupil spending (see chart) and basically unbudging student achievement, Hanushek concluded: "There is little reason to be confident that simply adding more resources to schools as currently constituted will yield performance gains among students".
The skim is huge, the kickbacks steady and the power genuine.
That solar energy also drives four huge gyroscopes, which steady and steer the station, preventing it from tumbling out of control.
(Listen to the summer hit "Chicken Fried" and think of the huge expenditures and steady income transfers that made it possible for the Zac Brown Band to both resolutely enumerate all that is good in the once Confederate state of Georgia and praise the Stars and Stripes as the only flag worth dying for).
But after a recent past that has been marred by huge debts and a steady decline, there are signs that Bolton may have turned the corner.
Past the 16th-century church and meadows rich with wildflowers, two huge chimneys spew a steady stream of thick, grey smoke into the sky.
While the pace of sales for apartments costing $10 million or more has remained largely flat, Mr. Miller's data shows a huge jump and a steady rise in the number of $10,000 and $15,000 rentals, particularly in the first three quarters.
The banking environment is hitting a rough patchrising short-term rates and loan defaults will hurt interest incomebut BofA isn't big into mortgages (not yet), and its huge retail business means steady profits from fees.
These stations drew huge audiences, hungry for steady exposure to the burgeoning new sound.
