Word: assignment
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...costs of building operations, the addition of the Biochemistry Building to the University's plant, added costs associated with more accurate facilities depreciation and several renovations to the plant, improved methods of cost allocation which divide the costs of space more accurately between teaching and research programs and which assign relatively high energy costs to the laboratories which generate those costs, and recovery during 1981 of indirect costs incurred in prior years but not recovered at that time. Indirect costs represent an average overhead of 37.8% on all direct costs. However, the manner in which federal research funds are awarded...
...continues. Meanwhile, resistance grows; Col. Adol Arnoldo Majano, for example, has spoken out in recent weeks against the Duarte government he once served. He has said President Duarte pretends he cannot control the death squads of the right. In reality, Majano insists, Duarte has never made any attempt to assign responsibility for the killings, presumably because any investigation would thoroughly discredit his internal security forces...
County public safety department is now beefing up its 1,726-member force with 1,000 new recruits (starting salary: $17,800). Another 100 U.S. Customs Service agents have been assigned to the region to chase down drug smugglers. South Florida can also look for help from Governor Graham. He is constantly lobbying Washington for more aid, and earlier this year he met with Baby Doc Duvalier in Haiti to discuss ways to staunch the flow of refugees. He lent 100 additional state troopers to Miami this year, and hopes to assign 115 troopers to Dade County permanently...
...disallow last week's auction and all future proceedings. There are 17 petitions now before the FCC, objecting to the auction mostly on grounds that selling transponders to the highest bidders is "unjustly discriminatory" and unduly inflates the prices. If the commission should agree, RCA is prepared to assign the transponders on a first-come first-served basis. They also have several to spare: Satcom IV carries 24 transponders, of which eight were assigned three years ago, two are "pre-emptable" (meaning, essentially, that they serve as backups) and seven are as yet undesignated...
Once they saw what Stockman was telling Greider, why didn't they assign some economics people to do that story?" Adds Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas: "Greider was walking a pretty thin line. If he were working for me, I would want those quotes, those contexts and Stockman's identity in my newspaper...