Word: longterm
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...receive adequate medical attention, Li had to leave her family and travel to Carville, La., where the U.S. department of Public Health operates a treatment center and longterm care facility for HD victims. The center is the only one in the continental United States...
Carter correctly predicts that the longterm pay-off from his support will be tremendous: "We benefit today, in new industries, in millions of jobs, in lives saved and in lives protected--from the investments in science made decades ago." Jimmy Carter has planted a scientific tree that will bear fruit for many years...
...computer age, biomedical research has recently entered the commercial marketplace. The success of recombinant DNA work has turned basic research into applied science. Corporations have now entered the science game looking for quick profit. Carter sees that cutting research would push many scientists into industry and damage longterm prospects for future achievements. The imaginative ideas that offer practical benefits have often appeared at the end of a road dotted with less practicable but nonetheless critical ideas. Promising money to those who offer quick and patentable ideas can only hurt science...