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2007-11-10 India-Pakistan

Oak Ridge National Laboratory sets up at Thiruvananthapuram

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Posted by john frum 2007-11-10 09:16|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 National Laboratories were set up in support of national defense. Couldn't pay the good minds the salaries of civil servants and retain them. However, since the End of the Cold War[tm], you've seen your military slashed by about 50%, yet the laboratories are still [earmarked/porked] at pretty close to the old levels. While line divisions in the Army have deactivated, all the labs are still around. We've gone through the period of seeking alternate rationales to keep them funded [earmarked/porked], but that's becoming a wee bit thin. Now it appears they're getting into the outsourcing game just to stay in business. Really, it's way past time that the entire network of labs be rationalized [efficiently reorganized] and downsized to support the reason they were created in the first place.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-11-10 10:19|| 2007-11-10 10:19|| Front Page Top

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