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Report to stress research over close ties to industry

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A blue-ribbon panel has recommended that the DOE laboratories concentrate on basic research rather on the Clinton administration's priorities of helping industry. The panel stressed the need to streamline lab operations, but this change will not produce the large budget cuts that DOE wants.

Author: Lawler, Andrew
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
Government laboratories

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Green light for long-awaited facility: the Spallation Neutron Source will be the largest new science project in the U.S. budget

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Physicists are elated with White House backing of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), a $1.3 billion project seen as a good replacement for the Advanced Neutron Source facility that was cancelled in 1995. The politics of getting SNS approved, and its technical advantages, are analyzed.

Author: Lawler, Andrew
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1998
Research, Finance, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Spallation (Nuclear physics)

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Congressional scorecard sparks furor

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A study of House votes on science funding found that Democrats were more likely to be pro-science than Republicans. The partisan reaction to the report disturbed congressional staffers and science lobbyists because of the possibility of a backlash.

Author: Lawler, Andrew
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
Legislators, Federal aid to research, Government aid to research, United States. Congress. House

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Subjects list: Reports, Science and technology policy, Science and state, Science policy, United States. Department of Energy, Political aspects
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