Sentence examples for back on basic research from inspiring English sources
The report added that corporations were cutting back on basic research and eliminating in-house laboratories.
"The big headline is that at the eleventh hour, [the White House] backed away from their intention of dramatically scaling back on basic research," says Matt Hourihan, director of the research and development budget and policy programme at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC.
He has not turned his back on basic research, however.
But as the revolt has spread, Haigneré has adopted a more conciliatory tone, insisting that she understands scientists' concerns and denying that the government has turned its back on basic research.
Some economists argue that Bell Labs has cut back significantly on basic research as a result of the divestiture.
Mr. Obama has vowed to increase spending on basic research and make R.& D. tax credits permanent.
The review recommended boosting spending on basic research from Can$3.5 billion per year to Can$4.8 billion.
In back-to-back plenary talks at the 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections today, Ronald Desrosiers, director of the New England Primate Research Center in nearby Southborough, said he thought that NIH--the world's largest funder of AIDS vaccine research--had "lost its way," spending too much money on developing and testing products and not enough on basic research.
The government's heroic spending on basic research on other NCDs dwarf spending on Alzheimer's.
He appealed to the organisation to speak out strongly in favour of a shift back to basic research.
