Word: nsf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NSF supplied Harvard with $17.5 million last fiscal year, and NIH gave part of the $74 million in HHS funds the University received. HHS has the responsibility to audit all of Harvard's federally funded research...
Federal officials, on the other hand, say the auditors are just doing their job. "One can't blame the auditors too much," elaborates Robert Newton, a senior staffer at the National Science Foundation (NSF), admitting that often the rules "don't make much sense...
...studying chemistry next year at London's Imperial College as a Marshall Scholar. But to do that, he had to turn down a grant from the National Science Foundation that would have enabled him to study in the United States. And having once won and then refused the NSF grant, he says he does not stand much of a chance of winning the money again if he decides to spend more time in school when he returns from England. But he doesn't regret his decision...
That does not seem likely for the moment. But like other government agencies, NSF has been struck by the budget ax; for fiscal 1982, the Antarctic program has been effectively cut by 10%, curtailing scientific activity and delaying needed repairs at McMurdo. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union continues to expand its operations on the ice, with a total of seven research bases strategically scattered over nearly all of the claimed pie slices...
This disturbs U.S. officials. Says NSF Chief Polar Scientist Frank Williamson: "You can't tell me that a continent that occupies the whole bottom of the world isn't valuable. But our current investment here consists of six airplanes, seven helicopters and just over 1,000 people. It's minuscule compared to what we might be able to gain." From all the hints the Antarctic is giving, the list of possible gains is likely to keep growing. -By Frederic Golden. Reportedby David DeVoss/McMurdo Sound