Meanwhile I would throw research projects at Manchester's universities and hospitals, subsidies at its orchestras, and heritage grants at its historic buildings.
Such measures would throw "research groups into the 'death spiral': fewer people translate into reduced output, publications in lower-impact journals, a sharper decline in productivity and competitiveness, and eventually, failure to renew funding.
All are consistently reliable, because they have huge resources to throw at research.
We mostly know how to decarbonise, and we could throw concerted research and development funding at the problems that still fox us.
But he threw the research away to compose, in 1806, an astounding enactment of the chaos of war at sea, using a viewpoint high up in the mizzenmast shrouds, where, although ostensibly on the British man-of-war, the beholder can as easily imagine himself in the roost of the French sharpshooter who kills Nelson.
Shouldn't we throw some research dollars into studying them?
I think Toni threw her research into what people went through with cancer.
Meanwhile, even powerful figures like Senators John Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy, working with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on behalf of would-be researchers, cannot break through the barriers to research thrown up by the federal government.
Since China has "thrown billions" for research, as you say, while in the United States the budget for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, the predominant federal agencies that finance scientific research, has either decreased or remained stagnant, why divert even more money to China?
