Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute ceremony ended with a display of an aerial equivalent of the riderless horse procession, which was impressed indelibly on a mourning nation at the funeral of John Kennedy 22 years ago. Four T-38 jets--the trainers in which all astronauts prepare for their dangerous duties --roared overhead. It would have been a perfect V formation except that a fifth plane was missing, and another symbolic void was created when one of the jets veered sharply away from the others. As the band played God Bless America, the President and the First Lady went down the line of family...
...October report on Safran's conference contract, concluding in muted tones that there were "problems" with his failure to inform the participants of the CIA funding, his failure to tell the University of the funding as required, and his failure to pay Harvard a negotiated fee for overhead costs...
...required by University policy; that Safran did not disclose the source of the funding to conference participants, as the center's six-member executive committee had recommended; and that Safran did not channel the contract through the University, which routinely receives a portion of the funds to cover overhead costs...
...narrow valley, in places just 60 yards away, Ethiopian troops are dug in. Some of their comrades, identifiable by their bright green uniforms, lie dead in no-man's-land. An exchange of automatic-weapons fire echoes through the valley. Moments later, two Soviet-built Ethiopian MiGs roar overhead in search of the rebels' camouflaged artillery and tank emplacements. Sipping tea in his command bunker, Afewerki Melke, a field commander of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, turns to his visitors and says, "Why we're here is simple. All we want is our land...
Referring to the overhead sign, the chess player noted that "That's merely stupidity on the part of the designers...