Sentences with phrase «tiny budget increase»

A Senate spending panel today approved a tiny budget increase next year for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and flat funding for NASA — and congratulated themselves for doing so given a cap on overall domestic discretionary spending across the government.

First, on Tuesday, «[a] Senate spending panel... approved a tiny budget increase next year for [NSF] and flat funding for NASA — and congratulated themselves for doing so given a cap on overall domestic discretionary spending across the government,» Jeffrey Mervis reported.

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However, most science policy analysts are wringing their hands over the tiny increase sought for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a small rebound for the National Science Foundation (NSF) after a cut in 2005, and reductions in the science budgets at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the departments of energy and defense.

However a square metre is a miniscule portion of the surface of the planet so that even a tiny increase or decrease in the heat being received on average over each such tiny area translates into a huge change in total heat budget for the entire planet.

Visually intriguing and done with a tiny budget of USD $ 39,000, interventions like these may be small - scale, but small libraries can have big impact on locals and the neighbourhood they live in — increasing literacy and deepening a life - long appreciation for books and to learn new technologies.