Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, these officials point out it is nearly impossible for auditors to determine the exact amount of time a professor spent on various projects when trying to determine where money from one grant ended and that from another began. This failure, they contend, reflects the government's lack of understanding of the way a university...
Howard J. Levy, associate dean of the School of Public Health, which itself was the subject of an extensive government audit in the late 1970s, says that by trying to second guess professors over the exact provisions of a grant, the government auditors have "been spinning their wheels trying to do something that can't be done, when their time would be better spent tracking down out and out fraud...
...Hussain case has forced the medical community to evaluate itself and although not everyone agrees on the exact action that should be taken, much attention has been given to the question of whether or not a doctor convicted of a crime of violence not directly related to his profession should be treated the same way as once who commits the same crime in the course of his work. Perhaps more importantly the medical community is beginning to consider what doctors responsibilities are to each other and how the profession should monitor itself...
Sabom does not think so. As evidence, he cites patients who had extremely sharp autoscopic memories. They were often able to describe the minutiae of their own cardiopulmonary resuscitation: readings on a monitor, the color of an oxygen mask, the number of electric shocks administered, the exact position of doctors around the table and what they talked about (in one case, golf). These memories, Sabom found, conformed precisely with doctors' accounts. Was it possible that some chronic cardiac patients were simply familiar enough with CPR procedures (from experience and television) to fantasize accurately about what took place? Sabom...
Senior Gail Koziara (20.9 points and 20.3 rebounds) poses a huge (6'3", to be exact) problem for the Crimson...