The germs are said to get used to the antibiotic.
"We're certainly not saying to get rid of the program," Livermore told HuffPost.
"Every MAAC program is trying to get the success they have," Willard said.
He also said general managers of radio stations that carry his program were getting calls to get rid of him.
"This program was going to get whacked sooner or later," said Richard L. Aboulafia, a military analyst with the Teal Group, a consulting firm in Fairfax, Va.
"The last thing we wanted in implementing this program is to get price increases for the consumer," she said.
When is, say, Sean Hannity getting on his program every night and yelling about how Congress and the American people are refusing to pay for healthcare for sick Vietnam vets?" All of the advocates I've spoken to suspect we're still going to see veterans' issues legislation passed in the years to come.
Within the department, he said, "individual programs are reluctant to get high-level help" from senior officials such as Koonin, who might guide them to partner with others at DOE. Chu, listening attentively, raised no objects to Koonin's critique.
The most important innovation for the space program, Mr. Musk said, would be to get away from the old "cost plus" model in which NASA contractors are guaranteed a profit on top of whatever costs they incur.
Though the Portuguese have followed the austerity path assiduously, they have not been alone in enacting the deep cuts to spending and public programs that proponents say are needed to get government books in order, and that opponents blame for stalling any semblance of recovery.
The program's goal is "to get some formal cross-training between public health professionals and climatologists, and hopefully begin to crack some new ground," Luber says.
