Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money, as anyone who has tackled the piles of federal forms and waded through the swamp that is the Washington bureaucracy will tell you, does not come easy. To get it, you've got fill out forms. To keep it, you've got to fill out more forms. And once you think you're done with it, the feds are still just around the corner...
University officials are even angrier about the audit's armchair attitude towards the school's salary certification system. "Our partnership with the federal government has evolved to the point where it has become very difficult for universities to keep accurate track of funds," says Howard J. Levy, assistant dean for financial affairs at the SPH. "It's hard to put a time clock in the head of a professor and see when he was thinking about which federally-funded project he may be working on," he adds. Scott says the HEW assessment of the University's record-keeping for wages...
...Susan had a busy social life. She knew that Betty and I didn't want her staying out after eleven on school nights, but she also eleven on school nights, but she also knew that we'd usually gone to bed by that time and weren't likely to keep close tabs on her. "What time did you get home last night?" I would ask her in the morning. "Oh, early," she'd reply, and normally, that would have been the end of it. But now, with the agent's logs at my disposal, I could say, "Well, I think...
...size and power of Harvard's investment portfolio, like most things at Harvard, is shrouded in mystery. Portfolio managers daily decide the direction of the University's investments, secluded from student demonstrators and outside interference. Like the gnomes of Zurich, they keep their decisions out of the public eye and help to perpetuate the myth behind Harvard's portfolio. They are cautious, conservative investors, seemingly unshaken by the moral and ethical questions students raise...
...Crime and Human Nature," James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, winces before answering: "You know, all the biggies: crime, war, revolution, sex." He admits it all sounds somewhat overreaching and "a little apocalyptic," but believes he and his co-instructor, Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology, can keep everything under control with guidance from the Core report...