There was no new stimulus plan, no mission to Mars, no ambitious plan to address the hangover from the housing market crash.
They are not the only ones witness the remarks by the governor of the Bank of England on the need for fiscal caution, delivered just as Gordon Brown set out on a round-the-world lobbying mission for further stimuli.
Between financial rescue missions and the economic stimulus program, government spending accounts for a bigger share of the nation's economy — 26percentthanthat anyany time since World War II.
One of the benefits of the Ulysses, SOHO, and YOHKOH missions has been a strong stimulus to better understand the magnetohydrodynamic processes involved in coronal expansion.
The modest job-creation proposals the administration unveiled Tuesday individually have their merits, and they seem much more mission-focused than the mish-mashed stimulus bill that Congressional Democrats constructed.
Mr Aso will urgently want to pass a stimulus package, and renew the Japanese navy's refuelling mission in the Indian Ocean, part of the international effort in Afghanistan.
Republicans, who overwhelmingly opposed the stimulus program, said the figures showed that the program was failing in its stated mission of creating a large number of private sector jobs.
It feeds into a newly-voiced mission to improve social mobility, by giving poorer children the kind of after-school stimulus routinely provided by private schools.
"There's a window, I feel, with a successful mission — particularly if it finds evidence of organics — to give the scientific community even more stimulus and ammunition to ask for a re-look at the budget," Hubbard said.
The president's main mission, after all, was to try to talk the French and Germans into supporting a serious global stimulus plan, and he failed.
As the catalog essayist Rose-Carol Washton Long points out, that mission was as political as it was aesthetic; Kandinsky advocated clashes of sound and color, "multiple dissonant stimuli," the better to disrupt complacency.
