Lower liquidity in thinly sliced funds may make them costly to buy and sell.
Because of thinly spread funding, it has taken this long to get the first couple of Army squadrons equipped with the Longbow version, and they are only now starting final testing.
"Rather than backing an effort to seek fundamental reform, the accounting gimmicks used in the plan are a thinly veiled attempt to offset continued operating losses with a taxpayer funded bailout," Issa said in a statement.
There, one recent April morning, a group of tired-looking middle-aged men sat around a dusty conference table and explained to VICE News the details of their thinly-funded efforts to protect the country's ancient ruins and artifacts from destruction at the hands of vandals, extremist militants, and unscrupulous developers.
Whereas most traditional venture firms are beholden to their limited partners, that investor base is often spread rather thinly between different pension funds, endowments, funds-of-funds, and high-net-worth family offices.
Higgins says there are two choices: spread the funding thinly, or allocate what he calls "different units of resource" to different "types" of university.
But the railways are burdened, says a former senior railways executive, by a system which demands that the minister spread his funds thinly in response to pressure from members of Parliament and state assemblies.
However, the efficiency of spreading the allocation of funds thinly among 30 countries was debated at the global level.
"It's vital that in straitened economic times, the UK government does not make the grave mistake of making cuts to higher education and research funding or spreading limited funds too thinly," the foreword says.
By the late 1990s rich liberals like George Soros were funding a constellation of left-leaning community organizations and get-out-the-vote groups that engaged in thinly disguised campaigning for Bill Clinton and other Democratic candidates.
