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...most serious of questions in Federal programs is that of unreimbursed indirect costs on grants. Most spectacular in 1959-60 were the unreimbursed costs arising from research grants, which made satisfactory allowance for direct, but not for indirect costs. While spending $11,860,836 of Federal funds for project research, the University incurred $687,500 in unreimbursed indirect costs...
Thus, the Freeman program has two basic economic functions: it gives money to farmers who do not need aid, and it maintains in the farm labor force a group of workers who no longer belong there. Of course, the poor but efficient small farmer receives some indirect assistance. The tragedy is that he does not get all of it. For he is the only kind of farmer who has any right to permanent government assistance...
...Harvard University completed a study of 1,436 Parkinson's patients seen at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1875 and concluded that the great majority of current cases are the result of a baffling epidemic of encephalitis that swept around the world in 1915-25. The evidence is indirect, but the Harvard researchers make a persuasive case. Key links in their chain of evidence: EUR| For more than a century, Parkinson's was a rare disease; only 2 2 of the cases at "the General" occurred in the first 42 years studied, while 1,414 appeared in the next...
...harassments, especially the Russians' infringement of the right to circulate freely throughout the city ("The principle of freedom of movement is basic to the agreements regarding Berlin"). In the past, Russian replies to such protests have sometimes been delayed for weeks. This time, the only immediate reply was indirect: the East Germans ordered all commuters to pay their rent in West rather than East German marks, which means a fivefold increase in rent...
...House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, indirect style, which proves that the shortest distance between fact and feeling is not necessarily a straight line...