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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Re: Quick reply to Jed Rothwell
- Message-ID: <11816@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:38:36 GMT
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- Reply-To: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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- In article <9301211614.AA22296@suntan.Tandem.com> Rusty Perrin <U7584RT%DOEMA.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu> writes:
- >Jed Rothwell writes:
- >
- >"If...we refuse to allow any new experiments (as DoE has done)"
- >
- >There seems to me to be a big difference between refusing to fund any
- >experiments and refusing to allow any experiments. ...
-
- Precisely.
-
- > ... So if contractors to the DOE are using DOE funds to
- >conduct CF research with funds intended for another purpose, DOE has to stop
- >that or people could wind up in jail. It's the law. ...
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- It is also important to note that DOE enters into "contracts" and NSF
- makes "grants". There is more than just a semantic difference here.
- The DOE can always fall back on its contractual language to stop you
- from doing something that it did not fund.
-
- --
- J. A. Carr | "The New Frontier of which I
- jac@gw.scri.fsu.edu | speak is not a set of promises
- Florida State University B-186 | -- it is a set of challenges."
- Supercomputer Computations Research Institute | John F. Kennedy (15 July 60)
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