ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, July 20, 1990                   TAG: 9007230169
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A   EDITION: METRO 
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BRIEFLY PUT...

A DRAFT U.S. Agriculture Department budget includes $1.2 million for Virginia Tech's proposed research center for agricultural biotechnology - a classic example of the kind of practical and promising research that Tech, a land-grant institution, should be pursuing. Yet nothing's assured about the federal money or hoped-for state money - a classic example of how simplistic and self-defeating belt-tightening can rob the nation of investments in its future.



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