1.   With ample historical evidence on their side, the expansionists replied that visibility was a tested means of swelling research budgets.

2.   Science and Engineering is the largest of the eight Faculties in the University both in terms of student and staff numbers and in the size of its research budget.

3.   Also, they note, corporations cannot necessarily be relied upon to maintain research budgets in economic downturns.

4.   And it is trying to keep up at a time when human experimentation has proliferated, with a doubling of the federal research budget in the past five years.

5.   And while the impact on private research budgets is unclear, uncertainty has probably cut outlays.

6.   And while the company has the biggest research budget in the industry, it spends more than twice as much on marketing and administrative expenses.

7.   As the federal research budget shrinks, and more research takes place outside universities, this may be a growing problem.

8.   At the hourlong breakfast, participants said later, the universities promised to do a better job of justifying their Pentagon research budgets.

9.   But now Japan once again sees itself playing catch-up in areas like software and telecommunications at a time when corporate research budgets are crimped by an economic slump.

10.   But otherwise, he said, his research budgets are intact.