FDC staff noted that " the WMF does not provide details about its expenses by program area ", and that the numbers in its report indicate " a risk of a significant underspend ".
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Byers said he was working to introduce greater flexibility into the department's procedures, and as a result the projected underspend for this year was down to 180 million pounds ( dlrs 265 million ).
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Last year, for example, Wikimedia Germany underspent FDC funding by US $ 225, 000 ( a calculation that had to be teased out of the chapter's total underspend from all sources of $ 665, 000 ).
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The second complication is that several applicants significantly underspent their FDC allocation in the 2012 13 financial year the subject of repeated criticism in the assessments ( the word " underspend " and varieties appear 10 times in the FDC's recommendations ).
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But Gore has also begun to clothe his populism in the softer fabric of " fiscal responsibility, " promising to " underspend the surplus " _ a direct response to polls showing voters prefer debt reduction, and an effort to counter Bush's charge that he is a big spender.
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The Committee encourages diversity of funding; in assessing applicants'existing and proposed programs it takes into account the strategic focus and clarity of expected outcomes, sustainability, and community involvement; it takes technical compliance with the eligibility rules seriously; it is quite prepared to underspend its maximum budget where it sees fit; and the Committee expressed concern that " some of the applicants in Round 2 did not adequately understand the FDC framework, and applied for annual plan funding when project grants may have been more appropriate ".
