February 20, 2009

'Buy American' Provisions in Stimulus Law Could Limit University Actions

By Paul Basken

Washington

As universities across the country anticipate their share of more than $21-billion in research money from the new economic-stimulus law, Carl Zeiss Inc. is trying to catch their attention.

The Germany-based optics company has sent out a flier to universities saying that the enactment of the law makes it an opportune moment to shop the company's product line, which includes state-of-the-art scientific microscopes.

But the $787-billion stimulus plan, signed into

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