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I. The Origins of the Stabilization Policy
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... This issue figured prominently in the 1976 report of the President's Biomedical Research Panell/, in the 1977 IOM staff paper, "Policy Issues in the Health Sciences, 2/ and in the 1979 and 1980 reports of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Health and Human Services in 1980) Steering Committee for the Development of a Health Research Strategy, chaired by Donald S
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... 1980 HHS report The 1980 report of the HHS steering committee described the goals set forth in the IOM critique as "ideal goals, indisputably the horizons sought by the HHS agencies ''17/ but said the agencies can only move toward goals "at the pace and degree of directness permitted by the realities of the annual appropriations cycle''l8/. It noted that the 1979 proposal for approximately 5,000 new and competing research projects had already (that is, by December 1980)
From page 7...
... 1980 budget the Carter Administration agreed to request funds for approximately 5,000 competing grants, at the time enough to fund about one out of three approved applications, and Congress had appropriated funds for nearly that number. Although President Carter twice found it necessary to reduce his 1981 budget, the 5,000 grants survived both reductions, and Congress ultimately included funds for this number in its continuing resolution for F.Y.


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