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Nature 445, 484 (1 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445484b; Published online 31 January 2007
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Your News story "Power shift stymies US science budget" (Nature 445, 130–131; 2007) states that staff at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are "apparently not too disappointed" by the prospect of Congress passing a continuing resolution that would limit funding to fiscal year (FY) 2006 levels rather than providing the increase of more than 24% in the agency's laboratory and facilities funding proposed by President Bush's FY 2007 budget. You quote a NIST spokesman as saying: "Proposed budgets rarely come through as proposed, so there were no emotions here.
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