If they are not reversed, federal spending at the discretion of Congress will eventually fall to a new five-decade low.
Regarding funding for the controversial research, Carpinteri says his group at the Politecnico di Torino has spent 4 years researching piezonuclear fission with €50,000 in funds he was able to spend at his discretion.
Officials estimate that about $180 billion will be spent at the discretion of government officials.
WITH $9.8 million in taxpayer money to spend at their discretion, Nassau County's 19 legislators are in an enviable position as they look to do good and win friends.
Under this scheme, any student attending a public school that is failed by state examiners in any two of four consecutive years will get a voucher (called a scholarship) worth around $3,800 to spend at parental discretion.
The Regents also simplified the budgetary process somewhat, proposing that districts be given larger blocks of money to spend at their discretion, rather than parceling out the funds under smaller, more restrictive programs.
But unlike those earlier consumer-directed plans, which are called medical savings accounts or health reimbursement arrangements and which are controlled by employers, the new health savings accounts would belong to the account holders to spend at their discretion and to take along if they changed jobs.
Individual PI's will almost always view their funding as "personal" money to be spent at their discretion, so students, technicians, and postdocs with disabilities are not cost-effective, and are therefore to be avoided.
The funds are essentially spent at the discretion of the mayor's office.
But organizations seem unwilling to donate the one thing Haitian hospitals say they desperately need: Money that can be spent at their discretion, for things like salaries, fuel for the generator, and oxygen.
