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think tank
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think tank

Institute, corporation, or group organized for interdisciplinary research, usually conducted for governmental and commercial clients. Projects for government clients often involve social policy planning and national defense. Commercial projects include developing and testing new technologies and new products. Funding sources include endowments, contracts, private donations, and sales of reports. See also RAND Corp.



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The problem isn't that Democratic politicians, Congressional staffers, and liberal think-tankers actually believe the era of big government is over, or that what the economy needs is a tax cut.
Nor should we overlook another phenomenon: the increasingly rabid antigay rhetoric of secular conservative journalists and think-tankers in New York and Washington, D.
But for all of their manifold virtues and straight thinking, the contrarians are still professors, think-tankers, and independent scholars.
 
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