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Over the past few years the cost of supporting research libraries has increased significantly, but federal grants and private gifts have managed to "keep libraries from decaying," said Parker L. Coddington, director of governmental relations...
...expect strong support in the Congress, and it is likely that there will be no significant cuts," Coddington said...
These movements reflect a "growing awareness of the secondary effects of research and a growing concern about the impact of science technology," says Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science and a noted expert on science policy. Parker I Coddington, one of Harvard's lobbyists who has been forced to confront these movement concurs: "The full 1000 percent confidence in science that existed a decade or so ago is gone...
...Coddington cites as possible causes an increase in fear of radiation, the 1979 accident at the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island, and conflicting testimony among scientists in public debates. Additionally, the synthesis of new, highly lethal chemicals and highly radioactive compounds has taught people the unrealistic nature of the "belief of 20 years ago that you could throw things away--that there was such a place as 'away...
...There are few Congressmen who want to pull the trigger on American higher education," added Parker I Coddington, another Harvard director of Governmental Relations...