Word: gao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GAO has since found $75,000 in furtherinappropriate charges at the Medical School, anddiscounts $663,000 more because of an accountingapproach it says Harvard can't justify...
Some of those extra costs are potential publicembarrassments. The GAO questioned $8000 in legalfees for such matters as the defense of a sexualdiscrimination suit filed against the Businessschool and the sale of property in New York...
...GAO also overruled some shuttle bus costs,travel costs and faculty hiring costs, but thefinal total for these kinds of mishaps, excludingHarvard's voluntary withdrawal, is less than...
...GAO's figures place the Medical School inthe company of dozens of other schools, butHarvard has already taken the moral high ground bybeing the first to voluntarily "give back" moneyto the government...
...GAO has problems with how Coopers andLybrand conducted its independent audit. Forstarters, GAO officials say the company didn'tchoose a random starting point in the MedicalSchool's books, a usual practice for this type ofaudit...