Certainly money is tight, although Paterson's advocates are asking for a modest initial appropriation of no more than $10 million.

It has spent $2.1 million of an initial $5 million appropriation.

But there will have to be an initial appropriation from the Federal Government, to get the ball rolling.

An initial appropriation of $25,000 began the work, which was focused on the eastern half of the wing.

The initial Congressional appropriation for the project was $200,000.

The initial appropriation to the agency from Congress, awarded in fiscal year 1999, was $122 million.

The initial $67 million appropriation for the program was increased to $90 million.

By then Tuskegee's endowment had grown to over $1.5 million, compared to its initial $2,000 annual appropriation.

The first requests for a light came in 1848, with initial appropriations in 1851.

It set up a special account this fiscal year, with an initial appropriation of $125,000, to acquire open space or farms.