Word: indirect
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...school had charged the government for upkeep on a yacht and flowers and cabinets for Kennedy's home. Federal investigators were throwing around figures near $200 million in monies improperly awarded Stanford in reimbursements for research overhead costs, called "indirect costs...
...effort to stay out of trouble by downsizing the Medical School's indirect costs...
When Harvard conducted an independent audit and voluntarily withdrew $500,000 in overhead reimbursements from the government last spring, it avoided much of the bad publicity over indirect costs received by Stanford University that led to the resignation of Stanford president Donald Kennedy...
...popular explanation postulates a major role for a mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter. Astronomers have learned about dark matter through indirect evidence: galaxies spin and orbit one another faster than the laws of physics allow, unless one presumes the presence of invisible matter that provides the extra gravity to hold things together. The extra gravity of dark matter could also have helped the galaxies grow faster out of the smoothness of the early universe. Even this explanation, however, does not sufficiently account for recent observations. "It is clear that there is something profoundly wrong with our theories," says Harvard...
...Mormons deserve much of the credit for Utah's economic vibrancy. Two- thirds of the population of 1.7 million belongs to the church, which has helped to shape the boom in both direct and indirect ways. In business terms, the church is an $8 billion-a-year conglomerate that employs about 10,000 people. Bankrolled in large measure by tithes from its members, the church has vast holdings in real estate, financial services, broadcasting, publishing and insurance. The church's strict morality (it forbids premarital sex, gambling and the use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs) reinforces the hardworking nature...