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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Row hits flagship brain plan?

Does "Row hits flagship brain plan" mean "an angry dispute slashes major brain plan"?

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Row hits flagship brain plan

Changes in scope and focus of European project anger factions of neuroscience community.
  • http://www.nature.com/news/row-hits-flagship-brain-plan-1.15519#auth-1
07 July 2014


The European Union’s high-profile, €1-billion Human Brain Project (HBP), launched last October, has come under fire from neuroscientists, who claim that poor management has run part of the effort’s scientific plans off course.
  

Top answer

"hits" doesn't really mean "slashes", more like "impacts in an adverse way".

  • "hits" doesn't really mean "slashes", more like "impacts in an adverse way".
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"hits" doesn't really mean "slashes", more like "impacts in an adverse way".

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