Word: granting
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What bothers the National Gallery almost as much is that it is expected to make new purchases on an annual government grant of only £10,500 ($29,400), very little more than it got in the 1880s,* plus other income that rarely exceeds £10,000 a year. Faced with today's soaring prices for old masters, the National Gallery is priced out of the market. More and more British masterpieces are leaving the country. "The hope of saving what remains of our national heritage and providing for expansion," said the report, ". . . must remain largely dependent upon the accident...
...maximum grant available for each student has also been raised from $500 to $1,000 and the repayment period has been extended from three to five years...
...announcement, the recent decree drew protest from both students and officers. Cadets are currently meeting in Shannon Hall, to draw up a request asking the Pentagon to rescind the order. I their petition is to have any effect in Washington, it will require official University endorsement. The University should grant this, not only out of consideration for its own students, but also from concern for the national defense policy. And if the College can make any contribution to this policy, the Air Force should consider its move and keep AFROTC at Harvard...
...policy will bring increased payments for the overhead expenses of medical research projects financed by grants from the Public Health Service and the National Science Foundation. It will thus immediately ease the budgets of the many medical schools that receive these grants. In addition, the policy will probably spur private foundations to make similar increases in the grant-payments that they issue to research institutions, Cutler said...
Meadow agreed with Cutler, however, that help from the Government will probably come before next June. Both men predicted that private research foundations like the American Cancer Society, some of which at present give no overhead money with their grant, would probably follow the Government's decision in the matter...