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Science 31 March 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5462, pp. 2392 - 2393
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5462.2392
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2001 BUDGET:
Austerity Push Begins a Bumpy Ride for R&D

Andrew Lawler

A booming economy, an enthusiastic president, and a supportive Congress should provide science and technology with safe passage through the turbulent annual budget cycle. That's the conventional wisdom. And while many budget watchers predict that science will eventually prevail, a bitter partisan battle now under way over government restraint in an era of surpluses is giving R&D advocates a collective case of the jitters.

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