11.   Indeed, without basic research skills and the ability to present research results clearly and completely, an individual will encounter many obstacles in school and on the job.

12.   On energy, there would be enhanced co-operation on fusion energy, on basic nuclear research and on safety in nuclear reactors.

13.   Although ministers now stress that they recognize the importance of backing basic research without strings, the suspicion still lingers that decisions are shifting towards short-term payoffs.

14.   Basic research includes studies of environmental biology, ecological genetics, mammalian reproduction and the physiology and chemistry of plants, animals and soils.

15.   Others were part of basic research on living tissue, and their benefits could not have been realised at the time.

16.   He said basic research could advance knowledge which could lead, years later, to important practical developments.

17.   Almost all of those advances came from basic exploratory research, rather than research and development efforts aimed at solving specific problems.

18.   Among computer science researchers, the company is beginning to win respect for making serious investments in basic research.

19.   Among other things, his basic research led to clinical applications like a widely used test for monitoring diabetes.

20.   American scientists still tend to dominate basic research on the physics of the atmosphere, many climate experts say.