Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Center-funded primarily by the Ford Foundation-does research on such topics as economic development, arms control, and underdeveloped countries. It has been the object of intense leftist criticism, and on September 25 of thisyear was invaded by a violent band of radicals...
...will give factual and political explanations, pointing out any enemies present," Margolin said. "We will stop at various points of infamy, explaining the connections between the Center and the government and the kind of research which it does...
...Everybody went through the summer assuming nothing was going to happen," Leahy said, "and a lot of people who had received legitimate awards from the NSF made commitments to graduate students, assistants, and junior associates, and have made plans for their own research. Now they are told that they can only spend 80 percent or so in this year...
...hazy on exactly what criteria they used in establishing these ceilings," Leahy said. He explained that if the expected rate of growth in support--and in the past few years Harvard's general level of research funding has gone up about 14 percent each year--and the increase in cost of living were considered, Harvard's actual percentage cut of nine or 10 percent becomes more in the order of 25 or 30 percent...
...With the NSF approach," Leahy said, "the university finds itself trying to play Solomon in cutting individual research. There is a lot of elasticity in the system, but certain people will be hurt. And there is every indication that things won't be much better next year...