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Science 4 February 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5454, pp. 778 - 779
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5454.778
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2001 BUDGET:
How NSF Came Up With the Biggest Boost in Its History

Jeffrey Mervis

Last month, President Bill Clinton announced that his 2001 budget could give the National Science Foundation (NSF) the biggest increase in its 50-year history (Science, 28 January, p. 558). The overall request for $4.6 billion would actually provide a bit more money than NSF officials had sought under the most likely of three budget scenarios. At the same time, it shifts funds from what NSF had labeled as priorities into other areas of research.

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