Word: goldberger
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...years, viewers of the TV evening news have been treated to animated illustrations of ways that the Soviets might be able to destroy the MX in its various Rube Goldberg basing schemes, including this latest one. Designers of the various plans have responded that the Soviets could not be sure of knocking out all of the MXs. Therefore the existence of the MX would introduce a cautionary, salutary factor of uncertainty into Soviet calculations. Maybe so. But the same argument can be turned around. There is always some doubt about any new weapons system, especially a nuclear one that cannot...
...Universities cannot compartmentalize costs as narrowly as the government would like," explains Milton Goldberg, head of the Council on Governmental Relations, which represents 100 major research universities--including Harvard--in their dealings with executive agencies...
...Goldberg and other Washington lobbyists sympathize with Harvard's recent dilemma at the Med School. They said that in similar cases involving other universities, an initial uproar is made, but the final settlement is for less than 10 percent of the original charge...
...While Goldberg says there is "always some truth" in the audits, the auditors are generally applying a far too fine line to universities' handling of research monies...
Meanwhile O'Brien and officials in Washington stew over the harm the disputes have on the higher education-federal relation. The audit problem has "probably been the leading cause of damaging what was heretofore a fairly cordial relationship," Goldberg flatly states...