For one, the head of NIH's "massive grant-review enterprise," Richard Nakamura, "says he worries about judging outcomes using publications and citations, because journal editors and authors have considerable control over those variables".
Eventually, large sectors like banking and auto manufacturing will grind to a halt, and then the political class will advise giving them massive grants of taxpayer money.
If we're discussing equity, we're discussing how large, well-funded, white-run theaters are given massive grants to do "community outreach" programs to potential audiences of color when the theaters run by people of color, who are already doing that work, are left to fight for scraps.
With the Elizabeth housing authority, CIS transformed another pair of troubled complexes in the Elizabethport neighborhood with a massive federal grant.
Suppose Congress hadn't made the massive land grants that subsidized rapid railroad expansion.
The Colonial Office discouraged schemes for massive proprietorial grants; still the idea persisted, with Thomas Peel kinsman of the future prime minister Sir Robert Peel investing heavily.
It encompasses fixed-term positions that are generally supported by massive block grants--in the range of millions of dollars--and are not subject to the limitations of project grants.
The effects in those areas are important, but in a discourse that often zeroes in on such things as how class sizes will affect students and the chances that scientists who have won Nobel Prizes or garnered massive research grants will leave for greener pastures, some important things get overlooked.
A social safety net to alleviate the worst poverty is implemented through a massive social grants system, a national school feeding programme, a no-fee policy for the poorest schools and free healthcare for pregnant women and young children.
