Subject: Dukakis, Bush Duel on Science-Policy Promises
Date: Published: 8/9/88 31 lines
Source:  WALL STREET JOURNAL. Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

   Campaign '88:  
   Dukakis, Bush Duel on Science-Policy Promises
   As Scientists Fret Over Funding, Focus of Research
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   By Bob Davis and David Rogers
   Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal

   LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Science is big this election year.  Big
politics, big applause, and big headaches for whoever is
elected.

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   Detailed discussions of science policy get lost in the
bustle of a presidential campaign.  Democratic pollster
Harrison Hickman says that voters respond instead to specific
projects, such as research on AIDS or ozone depletion, which
they believe affects them directly.  "I guess you'd call it
sexy science," he says.  "It tends to be project-specific."

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