Sentences with phrase «much of the grant money»

Not that I've received much of that grant money that's been floating around; my services are usually given gratis.

My question for you Mike is this how much of the grant money would my son loss if the total resp is just under 3ooo and he isw not going to post secondary school and he is only eighteen.

Climatologists have been spending far too much of their grant moneys toying around with models that include fudge factors for water vapor and clouds that are little more than guesses, making the models almost cartoons, instead of tackling the «toughest part» of the project.

Not exact matches

«Every startup competition has their own goals that are much bigger than just giving free money away to startup founders,» says Jonathan Allen, President and co-founder of Longneck & Thunderfoot (L&T), a content marketing firm and previous winner of a $ 50,000 Arch Grant.

With that in mind, although a young startup has dozens of challenges they're trying to address (and $ 50,000 of free money can pretty much solve anything), we adapted our application to narrowly focus on using the grant funds to solve a very specific issue.

In the assessment of Mendy Kwestel, a partner and director of entrepreneurial service at accounting and management - consulting firm Grant Thornton LLP, in New York City, «there is a ton of money — so much liquidity throughout the marketplace — that there is now private - equity money available for companies at every stage of development.»

You see, there's an entire subfield of computer science that can roughly be described as «pulling information out of things that look exactly like the Bitcoin transaction graph», and while these researchers haven't done much to Bitcoin yet — that's only because they're still fighting over the grant money.

Grant inspects the SS Europe from bow to stern and concludes: «The smoke has pretty much cleared now and those in charge of the SS Europe are left with a stark choice — print money or allow the break - up of the Eurozone and the end of the common currency known as the Euro.

But teaching children to respect money with out granting it too much power remains one of the more contentious, emotional, and...

But teaching children to respect money with out granting it too much power remains one of the more contentious, emotional, and frustrating parenting quandaries.

«They (investigators) were asking about why I believed I had been unfairly targeted, why Mr. Pigeon would spend so much money trying to unseat me and they asked to see some of the literature which I had,» Grant said.

Officials have praised a letter from Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo asking President Barack Obama for a federal grant to fund half the cost of the project, but details about how much each state will pay and where the money will come from are unclear.

Much of the money awarded via grants and supplements will support graduate students, postdocs, and technicians.

The University of Alberta team raised much of the money through a combination of crowdfunding campaigns, space agency grants, university support and donations from aerospace companies, all typical ways teams currently fund these satellite projects.

Teaching at the University of Miami School of Medicine, bacteriologist Clifford Mintz knew his chances for tenure were slim, especially because he wasn't bringing in much grant money.

Vilayanur Ramachandran, a behavioral neurologist and director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (UC), San Diego, advised spending as much as 20 % of grant money «on other exciting stuff as long as you tell them it's vaguely related.»

For universities, faculty scientists now are only a means to the end of increasing their profits (see: «Money now is Everything in Scientific Research at Universities»); the science faculty presently is forced to spend too much time and emotional energy on trying to acquire more research grant awards, instead of actually doing experiments to produce more new results.

That ongoing change means that: (1) money now is everything, (2) quantity is much more important than quality, and (3) the nature of scientific research is fundamentally altered (i.e., the chief goal is to get more money (from research grants), instead of getting more new knowledge; applied research is much more valued than is basic research).

Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change - resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year - long, full - scale design and build project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills: it shows ten teenagers the power of design thinking to re-invent not just their town but their own sense of what's possible.

In the case of Nebraska, while it's no journey to Mt. Doom or Battle Royale, Woody Grant (Bruce Dern)'s mission to get to Lincoln, Nebraska to claim his prize money of one million dollars in any way possible is very much a moving story that uses actors who don't necessarily jump off the screen but are perfect fits for the narrative at hand.

Wright: NCLB can help minimize the impact of local cutbacks because so much additional money is available under NCLB in the form of grants.

As a result of this legislation, over 350,000 education - related jobs were saved, state governments devised ambitious plans to compete for $ 4 billion in «Race to the Top» grants, and the federal government put forth solutions to the problems faced by the nation's weakest schools But the long - term impact of the stimulus money is much more unclear, according to a nationwide review led by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media and the Education Writers Association.

The U.S. Department of Education's plan to grant states broad flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act will free up as much as $ 800 million in money school districts now must set aside for tutoring students, but may mark a significant financial blow to an education industry that has grown up around serving low - performing schools.

Charter school supporters say money flowing to the state from federal charter school grants would offset much of the total.

(District of Columbia) Much of the nation is engaged in some new form of teacher evaluation, encouraged by billions of dollars in grant money from the Race to the Top competition or by the promise of a waiver from key mandates imposed under the No Child left Behind Act.

Educators told Pringle they are concerned that the federal money, which funds much of this work, will go away at the end of the three - year SIG grant, and there won't be state or local money to replace it.

Then, as various districts began to be favored by the pattern of categorical grants, the districts that didn't get much money said, «We need a categorical grant for us.»

The report shows how much money each district would receive in stabilization grants if 1 percent or 5 percent of students choose an ESA.

Nor will the extra money shelled out for the 6er bring you much more in the way of interior space; granted, the front two chairs are plenty roomy and that sweeping dashboard canted toward the driver implies a large interior, but the back seats are still cramped for anyone with real legs, same as a 911.

My books have sold amazingly well and I've made more money this year than I have in the entirety of my life prior to this year (which, granted, isn't saying much given how young I am, but it's still the truth).

How much money you earn and the consistency of your paycheck will make a big impact on a bank's decision to grant you a loan.

With universities offering reduced rates to in - state students, and in some states also offering students state grants, why would a student attend a much more expensive university outside of their state of residence, and end up paying more money and incurring more expenses?

Once you and your child find out how much financial aid is available, subtract any grant or scholarship money out from the total cost of college.

Your financial institution keeps track of how much grant money is paid out to each beneficiary, so all you have to do is ask them for an update if you haven't been keeping track yourself.

I have no idea how much grant money either one of them have.

Pet Refuge was able to open this much - needed low - cost clinic with monies awarded from a generous grant from PetSmart Charities as well the support of Pet Refuge.

Granted it isn't alot of money later on, but by then you wont be buying much, now will you?

If we're going to appropriate large funds of money and grants for something, I am all for attempting to make the aforementioned projects; schools, highways, hospitals, etc., much safer.

It is a powerful convergence of interests among a very large number of elites, including politicians who want to make it seem as though they're saving the world, environmentalists who want to raise money and get control over very large issues like our entire energy policy, media, for sensationalism, Universities and professors for grants... It is a kind of nasty combination of extreme political ideology and a religious cult all rolled into one, and it's taken over way too much of our thought process and way too much of our priorities.

When you talk about «well financed» forces impacting the debate and trying to hide the truth, you should be talking about all of the university professors collecting millions in government grant money to «study the issue»... do you think they will ever come out and say there really isn't much impact on the world wide temperatures, which would cut off their well financed research and incomes???

I make precisely as much money from granting agencies for shooting down Jelbring's absurd paper as I do from the Big Oil companies for stating that the preponderance of evidence suggests that the very real GHG - GHE is not a catastrophic threat under any reasonable scenario for the economic and technological development of the world for the rest of the 21st century.

after much research I have found the formula that explains globull warming: X times Y = Z (X being the number of dollars received in grants that «experts» need to survive, Y being the message they are told to find by said givers of monies, and Y being the «adjusted» results)

I also wonder just how many of our favorite warmistas (and others) have taken in enough grant money to do such a project yet didn't and I wonder just how much they profited personally from their grant money versus their income as celebrities.

Did Briffa and CRU have too much invested in the series in terms of grant money to drop it from later publicity stunts?

The UK tried that earlier with the PV grants system in the Low Carbon Building programme — but the level of demand for grants was such that it overwhelmed the relatively small scheme, and there were limits to how much more taxpayers money the government felt it could provide.

But by the turn of the 21st century, a ground rent became something more than a convenient figure to indicate a landlord and tenant relationship without much bearing on the actual value of the land: it became a means for a landlord to continue to extract money from a tenant throughout the term of a lease, regardless of the premium paid at the date of the grant.

Governor Blagojevich has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree... Blagojevich and others were working feverishly to get as much money from contractors, shaking them down, pay to play, before the end of the year... At the end of the day, the conduct we have before us is appalling... His press - conference sidekick, the FBI's Rob Grant, was almost as good: If it isn't the most corrupt state in the United States, it's certainly one hell of a competitor... the FBI agents that participated in this wiretap investigation, were thoroughly disgusted and revolted by what they heard, and I think even the most cynical agents in our office were shocked...

Upon completion of the form, your financial information (and your parents» information if you are a dependent) will determine how much federal student aid you may qualify for - including free money such as college grants.

This number is then subtracted from the college's Cost of Attendance (COA) to determine how much money for college you'll need in the form of both need - based aid such as student loans or grants, and non-need-based aid such as academic or athletic scholarships.

Granted, some of that money goes to the retailer just like it does with any other phone, but it's still too much in my book for a phone.