Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Science Foundation (NSF) probably will cut its individual research grants to Harvard by about ten percent...
...expected that the Committee on Research and Policy will handle the problem when it meets in a few weeks," Leahy said. "The Departments will be able to support the stipends they're committed to, but probably not be able to grant many new ones," he added...
...crucial provision of the bill, which has already passed the Senate, forbids the Defense Department to carry out any research unless it "has a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function or operation." Most of the $4.2 million Harvard received in Defense Department grants last year goes for so called "pure research" projects which have no direct military application...
...provision was written into the Senate bill on an amendment by Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), Fulbright has long opposed Defense Department research into social science areas and domestic affairs. Conservative members of the House and Senate support the provision as a way to "take a cheap shot at the intellectuals and the colleges," according to one staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee...
Washington sources and Harvard officials expressed the view yesterday that while the provision will probably become law, the Defense Department might circumvent it by defining all their research grants as having a direct military application. They added, however, that if the Department adopts this stance, Congress may act again with even tighter controls...