21.   Research groups have said that including the laboratory animals would take money from research budgets and increase the paperwork for scientists.

22.   Research budgets are only one area where lawmakers cite their own health histories in crafting policy.

23.   The committee held onto energy issues, though it will transfer control of the energy research budget to what is now called the Technology and Competitiveness Committee.

24.   The deficit-reduction efforts endorsed by both major political parties will primarily hit civilian discretionary programs, with a big chunk almost certainly coming from research budgets.

25.   The executives view as short-sighted moves to shrink corporate research budgets and to aim government financing at projects that offer an immediate payoff.

26.   The situation in Japan is in contrast to the one in the United States, where scientists have been facing deep cuts in the federal research budget.

27.   The threat to federal research dollars comes as businesses are cutting back on their own research budgets.

28.   Those at the conference agreed to evaluate tenure rates of female professors annually, and to review data on the salaries and research budgets available to female professors.

29.   Despite the advantages of combining the research budgets and sales staffs of Warner-Lambert and Pfizer, the companies have waged a very public battle in recent months.

30.   The decision restricts the amount of funding available for stem cell research from the U.S. government medical research budget, the largest in the world.