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Federal government support for new basic research» stopped during the
shutdown «due to furloughs of 98 percent of NSF employees, nearly three quarters of the NIH [National Institutes of Health], and two
thirds of the CDC.»
RISMEDIA, October 31, 2013 — Would - be San Francisco Bay Area homebuyers spooked by fast - rising home prices, a brief uptick in mortgage interest rates and potential fallout from the
federal government
shutdown took a break from their home search in the
third quarter of 2013, spurring a slowdown in home sales that, for the first time in recent memory, was accompanied by a decline in median home prices, according to an analysis of MLS data by the research division of Better Homes and Gardens Mason - McDuffie Real Estate.