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... a. Granting this acceptance of the value of an aggressive national program in basic research, there are limits to the resources available and hard choices to be made in budget priorities.
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... Whatever the particular field, the outcome is the same: new, sometimes startling, discoveries and unexpected progress in dealing with wider problems emerge, from the understanding of cancer and atherosclerosis to creating a new generation of electronic and optical devices. The same story applies to fields at the interface of science and technology computer architecture, advanced composites, and engineering involving biotechnology; in these latter fields, the enormous interdependence of basic science and engineering knowledge is even more evident.
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... And it is reaping the rewards of having made the university the home of basic research, an achievement virtually unique among nations. in doing so, it has created a rich atmosphere of learning anddiscovery, ofteaching anal research, of unrelenting questioning as teachers and their students combine to attack the puzzles of nature.
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... Considerable uncertainty burdens a number of research fields with military import, while restrictions, existing or prospective, on the flow oftechnical data have hindered or may hinder industrial progress, especially in the application of advanced technologies. Other matters also are treated in this report, from human biology to research on the uncertainties embedded in the nuclear winter concept.
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