Word: mckinley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blocks down, and four blocks up the hill, Sen. William D. Proxmire (D- Wisc.) is holding hearings to decide on the fate of the National Science Foundation's budget in fiscal 1981. It is very dark in room 1318 of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Senate Office Building, but Proxmire's tongue cuts through the bureaucratic gloom. Proxmire is asking a quivering panel of NSF administrators why their agency spent $35 a day to finance a graduate student's research on "The Development of Political Institutions in Colorado in the 19th Century" when a man in Maine spends the same amount...