Word: indirectness
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Federal officials yesterday clarified theextent to which money is regularly and wronglybilled to the government as indirect researchcosts and emphasized the government's resolve toconduct an effective review of how schools chargethe government for overhead on research...
Officials said "in depth reviews at 14universities disclosed $20.4 million ofunallowable" indirect costs. Of the remainingschools, another $18 million more were cited...
...particular concerns to the subcommittee wasthe government's finding that universitiescommonly gave foreign governments and privatecorporations substantially lower indirect costrates than the government. Some schools--Harvardwas not cited--charged foreign governmentsabsolutely nothing for indirect costs on research...
...Scott acknowledged the indirect costs areoften lower for foreign governments because manyof the projects are based off campus, often in thesame country whose government is funding theresearch...
WASHINGTON--Ken Campbell, MIT's chief public relations official, was working the floor at the hearing here yesterday, perhaps still surprised that something so complex as indirect costs had attracted so much media attention...