1.   Although Haxton said review boards outside the science foundation had given the underground laboratory a high priority, some scientists find the arguments for its construction to be unconvincing.

2.   And lawmakers of both parties have vowed to provide the science foundation with more money than the president sought.

3.   In any case, Lawrence says, it would be inappropriate for the science foundation or the center to weigh this untested allegation in the procurement decision.

4.   So this year the OMB sought to reverse course and shove more astronomy programs into the science foundation.

5.   The administration believes the science foundation has a superior system for subjecting research proposals to competitive reviews based on merit before financing them.

6.   The CIA, scandalized by discoveries of double-crossers within its ranks, is funding much of the lab work, along with science foundations.

7.   The science foundation has contracted these functions to a commercial organization, Antarctic Support Associates based in Denver.

8.   The science foundation finances much basic research, and its officials acknowledged that they had questioned the wisdom of cuts in the science budget.

9.   The science foundation is paying most of the cost of a supercomputer that will be used by a university consortium for climate research.

10.   The science foundation then gave a grant to the University of Maryland and the Internet Policy Institute to examine the issues involved.