Word: indirect
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Likewise, other Harvard administrators--among them Vice President for Finance Robert H. Scott--said yesterday that they believed Harvard has complied with all government regulations concerning federal funding of indirect costs, expenditures that are supposed to be tagged for research-related needs...
Investigators emphasize that they are examining the Medical School because its high rate of indirect costs is "hard to believe.' Investigators have discovered incidences of overbilling at Stanford and suspect that this practice may occur at other schools with high indirect costs...
...investigator said that "enough problems were raised at Stanford" to consider looking into the management of indirect costs at other schools...
...Indirect Costs...
...most troubling requirement is that pool reports be submitted to military censors to exclude any of 16 categories of material. These range from "information on effectiveness of enemy camouflage, cover, deception, targeting, direct and indirect fire, intelligence collection or security measures" to the catchall of "sensitive" matters. The concerns are valid, but the definitions are broad and vague and must be applied by military censors unaccustomed to such screening. Although the rules provide for a complex appeal and allow for an ultimate right to publish, the process could delay stories by days. All interviews would have to be scheduled...