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Rand Corporation, research institution in Santa Monica, Calif.; founded 1948 and supported by federal, state, and local governments, as well as by foundations and corporations. Its principal fields of research are national security and public welfare. Research in national security affairs includes studies in planning, procurement, support and operations of military forces, studies of strategic and tactical forces, command and control, logistics management, and the relation between political and military strategy. Research in domestic problems includes studies in health care, education, transportation, communication, racial discrimination, poverty, housing, and environmental pollution.
BibliographySee B. L. Smith, Rand Corporation (1966). |
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| She traced the daycare agenda as emanating from the corporate right, including from such institutions as the World Bank and the Rand Corporation. Despite these reported successes in disrupting cocaine trafficking," the GAO noted, a 2004 RAND Corporation study "indicates that the retail price of cocaine in the United States continued to decline through the second quarter of 2003 . A new study from the RAND corporation finds that adolescents from close-knit neighborhoods are less likely to become obese. |
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