Although the National Natural Science Foundation of China is generally well regarded for the grants it distributes, however small, larger projects continue to be marked by disarray.
Temperature increase and precipitation decrease are projected to be more marked in the summer half of the year.
N.Y.U. officials acknowledged on Monday that these earlier projects had been marked by piecemeal planning and undistinguished design and said they have made a concerted effort this time to conduct an open public process that is mindful of the neighborhood context, architectural quality and residents' interests.
Which is just as well, because the seven-year project has been marked by soaring highs and crushing lows – a pattern set early when an inspiring bid victory in Singapore was followed a day later by the 7/7 bombings in London.
If ever a proposal was half-baked, it was the iPad project, which was marked by a lamentable lack of planning, grave concerns over the enormous price tag, and an ongoing criminal grand jury investigation into possible ethics violations on the part of district officials.
The border fence project has been marked by delays and cost overruns; the Government Accountability Office released an evaluation last year (AP, 9/18/09) that found that it could cost $6.5 billion to maintain the fence over 20 years -- on top of the $2.4 billion spent on 600 miles of fencing so far.
The decade following the completion of the human genome project has been marked by divergent claims about the utility of genomics for public health purposes.
We admit how little we know, but we're trying to luxuriate in print and maybe remind people of everything it can do". McSweeney's' projects are marked by an intention to break boundaries, and nowhere is this more true than with the quarterly.
Feynman's time at Los Alamos, and indeed the Manhattan Project in general, was marked by this kind of flexible response to technical challenges.
The project had necessarily been marked by compromise.
The completion of the restoration project was marked by an event at the monument site on September 16, 2011, with representatives from the NPS and AIH in attendance.
