 | M.P. Feldman, Albert N. Link, Donald S. Siegel - Business & Economics - 2002 - 168 pages
...funded the Academy but not the members affiliated with it who had (Unesco 1968, p. 14): an obligation to investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art in response to a request from any department of the Government. Then, as today, the Academy is independent... | |
 | Millett Granger Morgan, Jon M. Peha - Business & Economics - 2003 - 252 pages
...supplying advice to Congress since 1863, when Congress chartered the National Academy of Sciences to "whenever called upon by any department of the Government,...experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art." This charter was signed by President Lincoln during the height of the US Civil War, and the president... | |
 | Norman W. Edmund - Education - 2005 - 648 pages
...an independent organization and is not part of the federal government. However, its charter provides that "the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any...department of the Government, investigate, examine, and experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art." The National Academy of Sciences prepares... | |
 | Vernon L. Grose - Education - 2006 - 742 pages
...according to its act of incorporation, "shall, whenever called upon by any department of the (Federal) Government, investigate, examine, experiment and report upon any subject of science or art." It is clearly a national body, although by 1974 it also had elected into its membership 138 foreign... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - Business & Economics - 2006 - 636 pages
...charter the NAE is directed "whenever called upon by any department or agency of the government, to investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art [technology]." The NAE's 1998 strategic plan, however, goes beyond this reactive, "whenever called... | |
 | Ronald J. Burke, Mary C. Mattis - Social Science - 2007 - 399 pages
...charter the NAE is directed 'whenever called upon by any department or agency of the government, to investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art'. The NAE is a private, independent, non-profit institution. In addition to its role as advisor to the federal... | |
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States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any Department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art... 
