It could be applied to belief systems like astrology in which the movements and "order" of the heavenly bodies are said to have a strong and systematic influence on the lives of us meager humans (a premise totally unfounded in science).
Although specifics are meager, the new budget would bolster earth sciences, keep on track a new rocket to replace the space shuttle after 2010, and provide more funding for robotic probes to visit other planets. .
The system's main ills, it says, are fragmented governance, insufficient mobility of people and knowledge across institutions, a lack of effective science policies and research performance evaluations, and the private sector's meager R&D contribution.
This meager result stimulated his ambition to establish a new system of the sciences.
With all the single- and double-digit budget increases among science programs and agencies in this year's budget, new funds for the National Nanotechnology Initiative NNII) look comparatively meager.
There is much exciting science to be done in Namibia, but there are many challenges, including poor Internet access and meager supplies.
Never Let Me Go Directed by Mark Romanek You wouldn't know it from the meager box office tally — a little over $2.4 million — but Mark Romanek's "Never Let Me Go" is one of the best dystopian science fiction films around, a potential classic of the genre.
