Word: indirectness
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...quickly they spend their grants. Furthermore, slowed spending of federal research grants has resulted in another $5 to $8 million in revenue shortfall for the hospital. Levy said that because researchers are stretching their grants into the first quarter of next year, the hospital has not received its indirect payments as quickly, resulting in less revenue on hand. “That just shows you how things you would never anticipate—dozens of researchers all of the sudden being more prudent—affect the bottom line of the hospital,” Levy said. He said that...
...Such external appointments are daily business in the public sector. They are not inherently bad—indeed, few would doubt that Sunstein, the most frequently cited legal scholar in America, is not qualified for his post. However, these indirect career paths do discourage bright, ambitious students from signing on for a career in public service...
...whose killing is suspected to have been linked to the Syrian intelligence services. "We don't engage in discussions for the sake of having conversations," Clinton said. "There has to be a purpose to them. There has to be some benefit accruing to the United States and our allies." Indirect talks between Israel and Syria, brokered by the Turks, ended with Israel's Gaza offensive...
...made cutting the massive federal deficit a major priority of his administration, a modest reduction in defense spending is an attractive and intelligent choice. In particular, we look forward to seeing Carter take on several pressing challenges from the defense industry, which has become alarmingly powerful through its indirect control over procurement policy. The Bush administration’s tenure in office was marked by the rapid proliferation of no-bid contracts between the Pentagon and numerous defense contractors; the result was an ugly mess of a procurement program that failed to achieve any noteworthy successes. The Rumsfeldian fracas over...
...Turnham, the foundation’s executive director. “Our goal in funding is to find new treatments that will help patients live longer and better,” he said. Harlow, who was been studying melanoma for about three years, is working to find an indirect way to treat this cancer by targeting genes that support harmful mutations, a method originally proposed in 2005 by Medical School Professor William G. Kaelin, Jr. Harlow is focusing on genes supporting MITF—a gene critical to melanoma growth—and hopes to find a way to control...