People recognize that getting grants funded can be a matter of make or break in a career, and so I have found people more sympathetic than I would have expected toward what I would consider unseemly behavior.
School enrolment among families that got conditional grants rose by 41% on average in the various programmes; the increase among those that got unconditional grants was only 23%.
Until recently, council members had large pots of discretionary money to hand out as they saw fit, and there was no shortage of worthy neighborhood groups that got modest grants that they put to good use.
In some cases, while representatives from the companies that got a grant did not donate to Mr. Santorum, their lobbyists did.
This week, at an NSF geosciences advisory committee meeting, Assistant Director for Geosciences Roger Wakimoto revealed the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.
The findings were announced at an "NSF geosciences advisory committee meeting, [where] Assistant Director for Geosciences Roger Wakimoto revealed the preliminary results from a pilot program that got rid of grant proposal deadlines in favor of an anytime submission.
The same businessman lathered Mr. Bruno with campaign contributions, and was associated with a firm that got $500,000 in state grants, courtesy of Mr. Bruno.
And maybe you are, or someday will be, one of those legions of American women whose family will one day rely on any one of the entitlements, like food stamps or even Pell grants, that got the ax in the Paul Ryan House budget -- which was more about ideology than reality -- that favored lower taxes, higher defense spending, and a bunch of holes -- if not outright shredding -- of our safety net.
But it would not serve the political purposes of today to tell those stories, when hopelessness and guilt are the themes that get federal grants, so these experiences will likely die with those of us who lived through that era.
They insisted, for instance, that scientists who got grants from the foundation share their research with others in academia and the industry.
