The National Institutes of Health is dropping a policy that gave researchers only one chance to revise a rejected grant application before having to start over with a new idea a rule that was especially hard on young investigators.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is dropping a policy that gave researchers only one chance to revise a rejected grant application before having to start over with a new idea a rule that was especially hard on young investigators.
UAL, United's parent, is getting an unprecedented new opportunity to submit a revised application, a courtesy no other airline has been given, thanks in big part to support from House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois, and the Bush administration.
As Ian Parker wrote in the current issue of the magazine, Merck is revising its application for approval of a new insomnia drug at the F.D.A.'s request, after a committee recommended that the drug not be approved at some of the higher dosage levels that Merck had sought in an earlier application.
You want to have the best information you can get for revising your application (yes, it's a forgone conclusion that you'll resubmit).
After the vote was announced last week, the Treasury Department and the Transportation Department offered to give United a third chance to revise its application, an opportunity no other airline has received.
Last month, Mr. Creighton said executives would try to get concession agreements from unions by tomorrow and then file a revised application for a $1.8 billion federal loan guarantee.
Five days after its last bid was rejected, United Airlines filed a revised application with a federal loan board yesterday, its third attempt to win assistance that would help it emerge from bankruptcy.
[C3.] Airline May Ask to Extend Deadline United Airlines said it could ask the federal government for an extension of a mid-September deadline to revise its application for a federal loan guarantee.
Brown recently submitted a revised funding application and is waiting to hear back.
