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In article <9301211614.AA22296@suntan.Tandem.com> Rusty Perrin <U7584RT%DOEMA.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu> writes:
>Jed Rothwell writes:
>
>"If...we refuse to allow any new experiments (as DoE has done)"
>
>There seems to me to be a big difference between refusing to fund any
>experiments and refusing to allow any experiments.       ... 

Precisely.

>            ...            So if contractors to the DOE are using DOE funds to
>conduct CF research with funds intended for another purpose, DOE has to stop
>that or people could wind up in jail. It's the law.   ...

It is also important to note that DOE enters into "contracts" and NSF 
makes "grants".  There is more than just a semantic difference here.   
The DOE can always fall back on its contractual language to stop you 
from doing something that it did not fund. 

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