Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest draft audit report, HEW charges the SPH with mismanagement of almost half of the $37.1 million the school received in the three-year period under investigation. Throughout the text of the document, HEW officials charge Harvard with sloppy and insufficient record-keeping and faulty supervision of expenditures...
...Midwest, where soft-spoken graduate students plant hybrid crops and try to improve harvest yields, big brother is the Department of Agriculture. And here at Harvard, where the lion's share of federal funds is funnelled into medical research, people report to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW...
...Huntington Avenue, over at the School of Public Health (SPH), they've been learning the hard way. A couple of years ago, 10 men from the regional HEW office descended on the budget office--and didn't leave for 18 months. When they finally packed up their calculators and balance sheets, and issued the first part of their draft report, nobody offered to throw any going-away parties. In a document released last April, HEW charged the school with questionable expenditure of $2.5 million and challenged the school's techniques for recording more than $15 million in salaries and wages...
...give up. He filed a lawsuit against the University and two SPH officials, demanding his reinstatement as an assistant professor of Nutrition and pointing the finger at Harvard's unbalanced books. When a Congressional subcommittee heard what Cohen had to say, Harvard was brought face to face with HEW. And HEW launched a massive investigatory audit of some $225 million in federal research grants given to various University faculties from 1974-77. So much for the buddy system...
...years since he left Harvard, Phin Cohen has been working part time in student health services and industrial medicine. Outside of work he has trans formed himself into an avenging angel of bookkeeping; invoking the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to HEW audit files, he has made a nationwide study of the accounting practices of 100 colleges. Among his findings: overbilling of federal research grants for medical insurance; hiding cost overruns with "journal transfers"-the practice of billing one project for work done on another...