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...government now gives Harvard over $100 million annually in various forms of support for research, training, and facilities. But some of the most generous agencies, such as the National Science Foundation (NSF)--which gave the University over $12 million last year--may be cut back by as much as 75 per cent in critical divisions. Washington sources said this week...
...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 to support a family of four. The NSF people are chewing on their slide rules...
...areas. To make our limited gas supplies go further, Carter advocates a ten-year, $800 million fund (to be matched by money from industry) for work in automotive technology. He would finance this work with revenue from the windfall profits tax stalled in Congress. Additionally the National Science Foundation (NSF) will receive $700 million over ten years to join major oil companies in sponsoring ocean drilling programs...
...budget increases the NSF's funding from $911 million to about $1 billion and provides for additional research on human nutrition and the environment, sub-micron science, and laser chemistry...
...rise in support of this kind of research is surely going to be beneficial to Harvard and institutions like it," George C. Pimentel, deputy director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington, said yesterday...