I just started a game and received the newscast saying R&D would be slow for a year. Just to check, I had a look the following turn, and R&D was already back to normal. I wondered if this was another case of the newscast text being wrong, but I see the error message is the way it's supposed to be (p. 285 in the Companion). I guess this is a case where the game isn't handling the logic correctly?