Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy will bring increased payments for the overhead expenses of medical research projects financed by grants from the Public Health Service and the National Science Foundation. It will thus immediately ease the budgets of the many medical schools that receive these grants. In addition, the policy will probably spur private foundations to make similar increases in the grant-payments that they issue to research institutions, Cutler said...
...Overseer pointed out that the Harvard Medical Center, which comprises the Medical School and its seven affiliated hospitals, last year had to spend $1,000,000 out of its own "strained general funds" merely to pay for such overhead items as assistants, lighting, and building maintenance on the research grants that it had accepted...
Already the Medical School has had to turn down proposed grants because it could not afford the overhead. Some agencies, notably the armed forces and the Atomic Energy Commission, have recognized the problem and have made provisions to pay for all indirect expenses. But the Public Health Service and the National Science Foundation, from which Harvard gets twice as much as from the above sources, has been unable to convince the government that it should appropriate more money for overhead costs...
Five minutes after Ike arrived at Camp David from Gettysburg 25 miles away, the first of three big helicopters bearing National Security Council members rattled crankily overhead. Yawing in the gusty grey air over the pistachio-green buildings in the Maryland woods, it plumped down on the muddy baseball field. John Foster
...plane passed overhead...