Bush's fifth principle, predictable and stable science funding, never came to pass.
But the Business Secretary Vince Cable, the science minister David Willetts, the director-general of science and research, Professor Adrian Smith, along with Professor Beddington argued strongly within government that a stable science base was key to the UK's economic future.
PRI's program stable includes Science Friday, which once belonged to NPR, and The World.
As stable academic science positions stagnate, a growing proportion of scientists seek employment outside academia.
Thus, the finding that epistemological beliefs tend to remain stable in science URE participants interviewed repeatedly over several years (Hunter et al., 2007), suggests that the epistemological beliefs of undergraduate science students do not shift rapidly.
Some have noted, for instance, that Random House's Del Rey imprint has a stable of science-fiction and fantasy writers that could elevate the narratives of games within those genres.
When combined with Harcourt, Reed Elsevier will control some 20% of the science-journal market, and add a further 500 journals to its 1,200-strong 1,200-strongcience publistableare still fretting, especially about the risk that the Internet might do them out of a job.
Concerns about currency notwithstanding, most reference works remain useful for many years because their primary aim is to communicate general information about fundamentals, which often remain stable even as science progresses.
In addition, they call on those who provide the money that supports research, namely Congress and the executive branch, to develop means of "planning for predictable and stable funding of science" rather than continuing the current damaging pattern of lurching unpredictably from funding increases to funding cuts and back again.
We won't get innovation and productivity gains without a long-term, stable investment policy in science and engineering.
In contrast, achievement in science remained stable (OECD, 2010a).
