Word: enmesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overkill. But many scientists argue that not enough has yet been done in basic cancer research. They fear, rightly or wrongly, that an organizational change would enmesh the cancer budget in politics and divert too much money from science efforts to clinical approaches. This fall they picked up an ally in the person of Florida Congressman Paul Rogers, chairman of the House Public Health and Welfare Subcommittee. Rogers drafted a bill to expand cancer research in the NCI within the present NIH-NCI framework. Before the House bill could be reported out, however, some proponents of the Senate bill counterattacked...
Chomsky argued that it was Ellsberg's "moral duty" to reveal the U.S. government's "criminal conspiracy operating in secret to enmesh us in a war of aggression...