Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invisible behind the traditional pillared facade of the New York Stock Exchange. There is still plenty of human hubbub on the trading floor, but less than there used to be in the pre- electronic '60s. Glowing cathode-ray screens now festoon the marble columns of the venerable hall. Overhead, gold-painted tubes conceal telephone and computer cables. Some 450 specialists stand guard at 14 trading posts, a few more than in older days, matching buy and sell orders from stockbrokers...
...show spends less than $20,000 on overhead costs because almost everything is donated by various sponsors, Shannon says. The Bank of New England supports the show with $20,000 each year to cover start-up costs, so all the money raised through donations and ticket sales goes directly to Dana Farber...
...mache cow, wailing loudly, "La vaca es muerta!," while two policemen attempted to pull them to their feet. People were spinning around ecstatically to a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff. A girl stops short: "I'm tripping," she says, her eyes dilated and staring at an image of a dragon overhead...
...Harvard is going to lose a lot of money," said Patty Sullivan, a research for the Association of American State Colleges and Universities. She said that while small institutions will make money from the 3.6 percent overhead rebate, major research universities report an average of 6 percent of grants for overhead costs...
Government officials said they made the change in order to cut out what they viewed as very large overhead costs reported by universities. "After all, the original purpose of the set percentage was to reduce the huge and growing amount of overhead costs," said Edwin Dale, assistant director of the Office of Management and Budget...