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From: gsp@ulysses.UUCP (Gary Perlman)
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Subject: Senator William Proxmire and The Golden Fleece Awards
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Date: Sun, 22-Jul-84 00:23:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 22 00:23:15 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Senator William Proxmire, from Wisconsin, was so fed up with
government waste, particularly with govenment funding of research,
that he began the Golden Fleece Awards for outrageous spending.

I requested information about the awards and was pleased to receive
an interesting article detailing the history of the awards, and
a summary of the awards, one per month, all the way back to 1975.
The awards are amusing, until you realize you are paying for them,
and they are informative, because they have implications about
what is worth doing and what is not.

Required reading for academicians, you can mail requests to:
	Senator William Proxmire
	United States Senate
	Washington, D.C. 20510
(You don't even need a street address!)
	Gary Perlman, Bell Labs, Murray Hill