Besides calling for Congress to give NIH more money, it suggests that the agency be allowed to carry over unspent funds: Because it must spend each year's allocation, NIH forfeits $300 million in unspent funds each year, or about 1% of its $30 billion budget.
It would be paid for with unspent funds left over from the previous ad campaign spruiking the higher education package that has been blocked in the Senate twice, according to the budget papers.
When many states tried to carry over unspent portions of their welfare grants from one year to the next, to set up so-called rainy day funds, lawmakers in Washington responded with a stern use-it-or-lose-it warning, according to Douglas E. Howard, director of Michigan's Family Independence Agency, as well as other state officials.
He claims dozens of calls from California's venture capitalists–often Coffee Bean regulars pleading for a chance to give him money (many have unspent funds left over from the tech boom).
An implied ideal of manhood for manhood's sake sparks one current in a show that climaxes with surely the most indelible of all sports images: Muhammad Ali gesturing in triumph, braided with unspent rage, over a suddenly fallen Sonny Liston, a minute or so into the first round of their fight in Lewiston, Maine, in 1965.
No longer will each Democrat be given $200,000 to dole out or be able to carry over any unspent money to the next year.
Unspent balances are rolled over for the next year.
Some of that money -- about $196 million -- will carry over from the unspent occupation authority budget and about $184 million will come from the reconstruction fund, officials say.
Last month, the administration had suggested a rescission of the unspent money, which was left over from the $5.4 billion in U.S. funds designated to fight the deadly 2014-2016 Eboutbreakreak in West Africa that killed 11,300 people.
Faced with relatively few physical demands today, our bodies burn fewer calories than they evolved to consume — and those unspent calories pile up over time as fat.
