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Science 24 November 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5496, p. 1477
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5496.1477b
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Biomedical researchers may be nipped by an early freeze this winter thanks to Congress's inability to pass a spending bill for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Institute chiefs learned last week that the delay will probably force them to suspend cost-of-living increases for continuing grants due to go out early next month, and they plan to make cuts in new and competing grants as well.

Congress is considering a bill that would give NIHa 15% increase, but election year politics has stalled work until at least next month. Mary Hendrix, president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, says the uncertainty "is a very serious threat to biomedical research" and could be "devastating" as faculty plan for research and staffing in the next year.

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