This important report identified 14 recommendations for strengthening basic research, including: setting broad national priorities, diversifying federal support, making basic research a budget priority, realigning the Energy Department's labs, improving graduate training, and pursuing expanded international collaboration and the globalization of research.
Like any new beginning, our birthday is an ideal time to sharpen our priorities, realign our perspective and rededicate ourselves to living the very best life that we can.
Privately, senior administration officials … said the pressure to rush for a vote on health care had subsided and that the White House's priorities were realigning with those on Capitol Hill: to pass a budget bill and keep the government open.
"Agencies have demonstrated that this is a low priority…it is easy to see government's priorities must be realigned," the OMB remarked.
Last week's atrocity has shaken us and realigned our priorities.
As the Bush administration has realigned its priorities to combat terrorism, there has been an alarming deterioration in the relationship.
At the end of its month-long investigation of the state of the NHS, the Guardian was clear that, along with more money, the health service's priorities need to be realigned in order to tackle the underlying pressures that are driving up costs.
In a recent phone call she shared that she has never been happier and is grateful that she realigned her priorities before it was too late.
The deeper message of this spell of Mercury Retrograde is to realign priorities so that you're following your passions and not just doing your duty.
Sure, realigning priorities has meant sometimes saying, "it'll be a few days" instead of "let's go over that now". More often, it has meant that things that weren't really as important as they seemed or didn't require use of the highest-energy time got reassigned to someone else or allocated to more suitable moments.
In my 50th year, these shifting perceptions and realigning priorities influence my choices more than external expectations.
