Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dime with enough junky symbolism to warrant an eviction notice. As each character is stripped of her life-sustaining illusion, it becomes obvious that though the setting is Texas, we are really in Ibsen's Norway. That sound at the end is not applause, but wild ducks flapping overhead, vainly trying to find a play on which they can comfortably land. -By Gerald Clarke
...Wagaboo steal the Ulam fire-the mysterious element that keeps them warm, broils their food and acts as an invader repellent. So three of the Ulam prepare to cross what will become Western Europe in search of their elusive prerequisite. Upon their departure, exotic birds soar overhead in salute. The camera eye grows misty in reverence. Philippe Sarde's heavenly choir surges into oratorio orgasm. The quest for fire has begun. And all for the want of a Bic butane...
...York City, the News (circ. 1.5 million) commands 34% of the newspaper advertising, compared with 60.6% for the prosperous Times (circ. 887,000) and 5.6% for the money-losing Post (circ. 764,000). Onerous union contracts, high overhead and the start-up costs of a misguided (and now discontinued) afternoon edition helped push the News's losses to $11 million last year. This year, according to insiders, they are expected to exceed $20 million. To turn the paper around, a buyer would have to invest $50 million in its aging physical plant and win contract concessions from...
...which divide the costs of space more accurately between teaching and research programs and which assign relatively high energy costs to the laboratories which generate those costs, and recovery during 1981 of indirect costs incurred in prior years but not recovered at that time. Indirect costs represent an average overhead of 37.8% on all direct costs. However, the manner in which federal research funds are awarded and managed requires that indirect costs be spread over only certain direct costs. As a result, indirect cost rates are frequently higher than this average. It is important to note that no federal research...
...departments. The departmental assessment pays only one-fifth of the total cost of the Central Administration. If all costs of the Central Administration other than investment management and cost involved in the support of other departments were borne solely by the academic departments, then that cost would represent an overhead of 7.0% on the activities of those departments...