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Think Tanks Geographic Distribution of Think Tanks Major U.S. Think Tanks: Brookings Institute Major U.S. Think Tanks: Heritage Foundation Major U.S. Think Tanks: American Enterprise Institute Major U.S. Think Tanks: Cato Institute Major U.S. Think Tanks: RAND Corporation Dissemination Strategies Publishing Programs Table: Publishing Programs of Think Tanks Educational Programs The Institute of Economic Affairs Media Relations Table: Media References to Major U.S. Think Tanks Media-Appearance of Think Tanks Conservative Think Tanks and the Media Influence on Policy Making by Fact Construction War on Anti-Poverty Programs Abolition of Resale Price Maintenance Think Tanks and Corporate Money History of Corporate Funding of Conservative Think Tanks Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Brookings Institution Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Cato Institute Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Manhattan Institute Corporate Money and Politics Influence of Corporate Funding on Think Tank Activities The Microsoft Case Conservative vs. Progressive Think Tanks Funding Sources and Revenues Media Relations Think Tanks and the Internet Advertising, Public Relations and Think Tanks  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  Blaise Pascal b. June 19, 1623, Clermont-Ferrand, France d. August 19, 1662, Paris, France French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and master of prose. He laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities, formulated what came to be known as Pascal's law of pressure, and propagated a religious doctrine that taught the experience of God through the heart rather than through reason. The establishment of his principle of intuitionism had an impact on such later philosophers as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Henri Bergson and also on the Existentialists.