Power shift stymies U.S. science budget
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The U.S. President George W. Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative, which aims to bolster the country's innovation, is in complete jeopardy ever since the new Democrat-led U.S. Congress convened. The new chairs of the committees would rather abandon the budget in favor of a year-long continuing resolution that would keep funding for agencies at the previous year's levels, which means that the science agencies will have to cut grants, delay projects and even temporarily lay off staff.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2007
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NASA administrator quits post to launch career as academic
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Sean O'Keefe the administrator of NASA resigned on 13 December 2004 to pursue a job as chancellor of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, which offers him $500,000 salary. Sean O'Keefe's main trouble as an administrator of NASA was about a dispute over how to save the ailing Hubble Space Telescope where the amount required was $2 billion, which the NASA did not have in its budget.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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