Word: flatness
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...While the scientists said that U.S. researchers have made enormous strides in unlocking the secrets of human health and disease, they said that this progress may come to a grinding halt in the wake of stagnant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And not only is flat funding taking a toll on research, but it’s also affecting the careers of younger scientists, according to a new report released yesterday by Harvard and the six other research institutions...
...impact of [the flat funding] at a time where research is so exciting and prospects so achievable is creating a logjam in the grant application process,” said Kevin Casey, the associate vice-president for government, community, and public affairs at Harvard. “The pipeline for grants is really being stressed and clogged...
...Congress doubled the budget of the NIH between 1999 and 2003, increases credited with facilitating breakthroughs in research like the sequencing of the human genome and dramatic advances in cancer treatment. But since 2003, the NIH’s budget has been flat, causing the overall success rate for research project grants has dropped from 32 percent in 1999 to 24 percent last year...
...also getting requests from Paris friends who never showed any interest in the north before to go up there with me on weekends. The film has given a lot of relief to a map of the north that most of France had written off as dismally flat...
...Philippe Abrams, a manager in France's postal system whose efforts to finagle a transfer to the sunny Riviera go wildly wrong. His bosses punish him by sending him instead to the Nord Pas de Calais, warning him of its reputed cold, gloom, incessant rain, and expanses of flat, barren land pocked by slag heaps, abandoned mines, and derelict factories. Just as dismal, he is told, are the region's residents: beer-guzzling, perpetually-unemployed louts who never saw anything deep-fried they didn't love; who pack large, allegedly inbred families into dilapidated brick row houses; and whose...