81.   Last year, suspecting that basic research at Bellcore had a bleak future, Chung left the company to take a teaching post at the University of Pennsylvania.

82.   Like many foundations, it had assiduously donated money for years to basic research.

83.   Last year, three academic scientists who pioneered mouse knockouts won the Lasker Award for basic research, an honor second only to the Nobel Prize.

84.   Lucky said that the cold reality was that companies do not care if the work of basic research does not get done, as long as they remain competitive.

85.   Many of these investigations have centered at Harvard, taking advantage of basic research on the biology of the anthrax toxin carried out there by biologist R. John Collier.

86.   Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is a relative latecomer to basic scientific research.

87.   Many universities say they would refuse federal contracts for basic research if the government required that scientists obtain permission to publish their results or limit scholarly contacts.

88.   Money she disbursed for basic medical research on scleroderma led to the publication of scientific articles exploring potential cures.

89.   Most of the money goes for basic research, to investigate fundamental properties of genes and cells, or to test new methods of treating diseases and disabling conditions.

90.   Nevertheless, it has been the military that has often funded basic research, when nobody else would do so.