1.   And private drug companies are reluctant to spend research dollars on a natural substance that will carry no patent royalties.

2.   And President Clinton went along with it to direct some federal research dollars to the home state of Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

3.   Aside from merging to gain girth for price battles with health-maintenance organizations, medical-device companies need size for research dollars and technology.

4.   Both schools got better ratings this year from school superintendents, got more research dollars and were more selective in admitting students than the year before.

5.   But for more than a decade, New York has lagged behind, losing millions of federal research dollars.

6.   But some say more research dollars are needed in the Mojave because the grasses are getting thicker every year.

7.   Companies get access to the intellectual property developed with their research dollars but have to pay royalties for other inventions to which they did not contribute funding.

8.   Despite this, prostate cancer has been one of the most neglected cancers in terms of federal research dollars.

9.   Directing more research dollars and news coverage toward answering such questions makes sense for all ages.

10.   Even university research teams in biotech fields are viewed with a suspicious eye, since they rely more and more on private, and often corporate, research dollars.