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...many fronts, Coddington and his fellow education lobbyists have already succeeded in countering Budget Director David A. Stockman's campaign to reduce or eliminate programs. For example, Congress decided against proposed spending ceilings for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF), which together support about 90 per cent of biomedical research at universities. In the case of NIH, researchers have long opposed any specific spending limits, fearing that restrictions could subject the institutes to political pressure to pursue particular fields. Calling the decision a "major victory," Coddington points out that the continuing absence of ceilings also...
...measures Congress took up again last week after returning from recess included small increases for both the NSF and the NIH, which last year spent $3.56 billion and $1.04 billion, respectively. The National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities each received far smaller cuts in their budgets than Stockman had asked for. The Museum Services Administration, which Stockman had sought to eliminate, received $9.6 million. "Considering where we could have been with some of these things, we escaped in pretty good shape," says Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for research and the allied institutions. The backlog of grant applications...
...regulations provide a stricter, more wide-ranging version of guidelines originally set by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which only institutions receiving federal funding were required to follow...
...called the new proposal was "much more reasonable." The guidelines, as they stand now, will not significantly alter DNA research at the University because Harvard, which receives money from the government, had complied with the NIH requirements...
...proposal, which states that "all use of RDNA by institutions in the city of Boston shall be undertaken only in strict conformity with the [NIH] guidelines," includes the following regulations...