This suggests that the expansion in federal investment in R&D
over the past several decades has resulted not only from a commitment to the «
endless frontier» of science and technology, but perhaps as importantly from the general
growth of discretionary spending which allowed greater government investments to be made in a variety of areas including S&T.
«The more than ten percent
growth in awards demonstrates that parents want access to educational options, despite
endless attacks from special interests groups
over the past two years.»