I spent the weekend worrying while trying to figure out -- if I was okay, God willing -- how I would come up with a more solid financial plan.
The second piece of advice I received from another lady friend had a little more of a solid plan for my continued pursuit in the world of love.
NSF's oversight body, the National Science Board, has already given its preliminary approval, but NSF Director Arden Bement pulled it from his lineup last year after deciding that project officials needed to come up with firmer cost numbers and a more solid long-range management plan.
That could be to be more solid, to have alternatives when Plan A is not working; small things, tactically, which maybe could still surprise the opponent.
On Wednesday, however, the Senate voted to redirect $450 billion of the proposed cuts, abut a quarter of the total, to education and repayment of the national debt.Support for the plan is more solid in the House than in the Senate which, split 50-50 as it is, is a delicate place to do business.
Its business plan is more solid.
During a news conference announcing the administration's proposed 2011 budget for the space agency, Lori Garver, the deputy administrator, said the agency did not plan to buy more solid rocket motors, although ATK could use the motor for its own rocket if it wished to bid for the commercial crew business.
Mr. Kerry's position is that the Bush administration made a mess of Iraq by not having a solid plan and by not getting more international support.
George Miller, the California Democrat who is chairman of the House education committee, hailed President Obama's proposal as a "solid plan to make federal student loans more reliable".
While city officials navigate the logistical and political shoals of that ambitious plan, other agencies are pressing ahead on more solid ground.
