Although there were other
grant proposals in the pipeline, none
of them had yet been awarded and people were starting to get nervous — nervous enough to consider picking up the whole operation and moving to the other side
of the state in
search of money.
Low - end outfits like mine, trying to snag an SBIR (federal small
money grants) have to submit to both a fiscal, personal and technical strip -
search, where hand - waving arguments simply don't cut it, and each stage
of (still small)
money requires verifiable performance.