Federal Funding of Astronomical Research

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Front Matter	i-xiv
Executive Summary	1-3	(skim)
1. Introduction	4-5	(skim)
2. Back to the Past: An Update on the 1991 Decadal Report	6-13	(skim)
3. Process and Methodology of This Study	14-15	(skim)
4. Demographics	16-25	(skim)
5. Funding	26-51	(skim)
6. Discussion	52-55	(skim)
7. Findings	56-58	(skim)
Appendixes	59-60	(skim)
A: Discipline and Field Categories	61-61	(skim)
B: American Astronomical Society Membership	62-63	(skim)
C: Deflators	64-64	(skim)
D: National Science Foundation Budget Numbers	65-65	(skim)
E: Additional Sources of Funding for Astronomy	66-75	(skim)
F: National Science Foundation Proposal Success Rates	76-77	(skim)
G: Notes on Figures, Tables, and Other References	78-79	(skim)
H: Acronyms	80-84	(skim)

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