House vote to kill SSC reflects squeeze that budget deficit puts on all research
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The House of Representatives voted in Jun 1992 to deny most of the funding requested for the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) largely due to renewed determination to diminish the $400 billion budget deficit. The House decided to cut all but $34 million of the $650 million that President Bush had asked for the project. The decision is reinforcing widespread fears among high-energy physics researchers and others that the deficit may impinge on their efforts to obtain government funding. However, a possible House-Senate compromise may revive the SSC.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Contradictory US trade policy opens supercomputer market to Japanese
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US supercomputer companies are protesting a decision by NASA to open contract bidding to Japanese companies based on a 1990 open competition commercial treaty because Japan has trade barriers against US supercomputers. Japanese government contracts are tailored to Japanese supercomputer strengths and require artificially low prices, excluding US machines regardless of technical superiority. However, according to the GATT's international fair trading treaties, NASA must open bidding unless the contract is a matter of national security, which it is not.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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US prepares to adopt world patent standards: first-to-invent rule would be dropped; talks, bills seek harmony with Europe, Japan
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The US will bring its patent laws into harmony with the rest of the world by replacing the 'first-to-invent' rule with the 'first-to-file' rule. 'First-to-file' gives the property rights on an invention to whoever first applies for it rather than to whoever can prove having first made it. This change will keep US inventors from losing rights around the world as has happened until now. Bills have been proposed in Congress to bring about this and other changes such as allowing a grace period to foster quicker publication of research.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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