Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vain. They had counted 33 shooting stars, the advance guard of the annual Leonid meteor shower. But none of the University of Arizona students could anticipate the spectacle that was still to come. In the small hours of that Nov. 17 morning in 1966, the fiery meteors began streaking overhead in ever increasing numbers until, as one viewer reported in Sky & Telescope magazine, "the sky began raining shooting stars...
...think that if you skied here too often you might lose touch." Still, unlike Seagaia, SSAWS really has little to offer apart from snow. The skiing is fine for the first few runs -- and is especially surreal in summer -- but the lack of any scenery, apart from the girders overhead and gray walls all around, becomes tiresome...
...dispensed at 100 different locations (limit: 2 gal. to a customer); they were forbidden to enter office buildings because sprinkler systems could not protect them from fire. Downtown at times looked like a city under military occupation: deserted except for National Guardsmen who patrolled the streets while helicopters buzzed overhead. President Clinton, who toured flooded areas many times during his 12 years as Governor of Arkansas, flew in Wednesday and declared, "I've never seen anything on this scale before...
Foreign influence on United States universities also was a subject of discussion at January 1992 congressional hearings on the subject of indirect costs for research funding Scandalous over-billing for research overhead at institutions like Stanford University drew the ire of congressional investigators, and one of the most irritating things was that some foreign governments were billed less, or weren't billed at all for the indirect costs, or overhead costs, associated with their research grants...
...other words, the U.S. government was funding high research overhead costs and benefiting foreign governments, who could then compete with American companies using technology developed in United States universities...