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Influence on Policy Making by Fact Construction Funded by foundations, corporate donors and individual contributors, think tanks are endowed with the financial and human resources which enable them to systematically influence public opinion, media agenda setting and policy discussion. From time to time, when evidence is not at hand, these institutions produce tailor-made arguments, backing their ideological concepts, with the aim to influence policy making. In some cases this construction of evidence has not only remained in the position of an attempt, but actually led to specific policy reforms. browse Report: Fact and opinion construction(think tanks)     Think Tanks  ... -3   Table: Media References to Major U.S. Think Tanks -2   Media-Appearance of Think Tanks -1   Conservative Think Tanks and the Media 0   Influence on Policy Making by Fact Construction +1   War on Anti-Poverty Programs +2   Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance +3   Think Tanks and Corporate Money      ... Advertising, Public Relations and Think Tanks  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  Next Generation Internet Program A research and development program funded by the US government. Goal is the development of advanced networking technologies and applications requiring advanced networking with capabilities that are 100 to 1,000 times faster end-to-end than today's Internet. http://www.ngi.gov