Word: grantsmanship
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...when the Congress passes a law that is designed specifically to help the poor, quite often those tax monies tend to move out toward the more wealthy people; the ones who are better organized, more articulate, who understand the complexities of the laws more fully, who are versed in grantsmanship. I want to make sure that that kind of trend is reversed. I believe I can evoke my concerns adequately to the American people with fireside chats and so forth, and there would be a broad support for a change...
...Malek kept all potentially incriminating evidence a comfortable distance from himself. At one point, Sen. Joseph Montoya (D-N.M.) pressed Malek about the potential illegality of a grantsmanship proposal coming out of his office. Malek admitted that the proposal was potentially illegal, but he insisted that a staff member wrote it and said he forgot whether Haldeman had ever seen the proposal...
...VIVIAN W. HENDERSON, 45, CLARK COLLEGE, Atlanta, Ga. (1,006 students). An expert in the game of grantsmanship, with a Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State, Henderson is a man of fearsome energy. He is a longtime consultant to the U.S. Government on Negro affairs, helped develop the federal poverty program, and is chairman of the Task Force on Occupational Training in Private Industry for the U.S. Departments of Labor and Commerce. He has dou bled Clark's budget to $3,000,000 since he became president...
...Competitive zeal and junior gamesmanship and grantsmanship become their equipment for survival and success in the academic marketplace...
...there is any victim in grantsmanship, it is not the Government or the foundations but the undergraduate student. To the professor tied up in the pursuit of research funds, teaching may seem like an unpleasant interruption in his real career. One U.C.L.A. physicist, for example, contends that "a professor who gets three or four men through to their Ph.D. via research is achieving far more than he can by lecturing to a hundred freshmen all year." The nation's 1.5 million freshmen are not likely to agree-until they, too, some day need a grant...