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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Space Station & APS
- Date: 31 Jul 92 19:00:21 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <1992Jul30.214339.38024@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jmp1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JEFFREY MICHAEL PARSONS) writes...
- >Can anyone confirm what Sen. Grahm (Texas) said on CBS This Morning (7/30/92)?
- >I believe that he said that governmental funding of science research has gone
- >from a former (stable) 5% of the budget to 1.8% (1.6% without the SSC) under
- >the current Congress. He noted that this trend appears to be continuing. I
- >would also add that it is my impression that a smaller percentage of federal
- >science funding is going to physics. Does anyone have a source which confirms
- >or refutes these facts? Dale, what does your crystal ball have to say? :-)
-
- This probably refers to the shift in a large number of research dollars into
- the defense budget since the Reagan years. I doubt is real dollar total
- expenditure for basic research has gone down. And the budget hasn't
- grown *that* much.
-
- -Scott (not-the-Dale)
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- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
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