Two years ago, I said that we needed to reach a level of research and development we haven't seen since the height of the space race.

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This is the time to reach a level of research and development that we haven't seen since the height of the Space Race.

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San Francisco (CNN) -- Sunday's debut of the Nintendo 3DS, a hand-held game system with a 3-D display that doesn't require special glasses, isn't just the culmination of several years of research and development for one product.

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Among the people required to attend Disaster Preparedness Commission meetings but didn't was Francis Murray, president of the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority, according to state records.

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"This situation is a good example of why traditional accounting methods aren't an accurate way to determine value for research and development, " IV says in a statement.

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And though he feared he couldn't afford his master's degree, he found work with the research and development arm of the U.S. Army and left school debt-free.

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Jesse Cozean, vice president of research and development at Innovative BioDefense, says it is true the company's test doesn't translate directly to real-life benefits but it does show the product is more likely to provide lasting protection than alcohol-based sanitizers.

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They are able to make drugs at a fraction of the original manufacturer's cost because they don't carry out the expensive research and development.

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There was a period when there were thousands of startups trying all kinds of things, Van Houweling notes, but now many of them are gone, and the remaining big corporations can't spend as much on research and development.

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