What is "think tanks"

Usage examples of "think tanks".

You have all kinds of goddamn schemes coming out of the think tanks in the centers.

There are centers for policy studies, think tanks, groups for the pro­.

We've been talking to NASA scientists, military think tanks, and gentlemen in the National Security Agency about a number of possibilities that could have caused the mass disappearances around the world.

However, I must admit in all fairness to the senator, we have turned up discrepancies at other think tanks.

They're digesting the new situation, running it through their comput- ers and think tanks, trying to figure out what to do next.

The federal government think tanks who had tried to flesh out the Carter catastrophe hypothesis had provided her with some gloomy reading.

That shock would reverberate throughout American think tanks and war colleges for months to come.

The issue of interaction, of communication with aliens, had consumed a number of government think tanks for many decades.

He had spent ten years knocking around the gray-suit defense think tanks before being tapped as Secretary of the Navy three years ago by his father-in-law, Royce Caplinger, the Secretary of Defense.

Much of what constitutes the modern starship engine was designed in my engineering think tanks.

I know who worked on the Death Star, who Palpatine hired in his think tanks, who taught at the Omwat orbital training center--and I know they're out of the Republic's jurisdiction.

We set up three separate think tanks and gave them all the facilities we could steal from daily needs.