Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...back this year. But how long have Harvard and other schools been overcharging the government? From what is already known, it appears that many worthy medical causes--like AIDS, cancer and cystic fibrosis--might be receiving greater research support if the federal government were not pouring millions into illegitimate overhead charges...
...federal probe, now underway at several campuses nationwide, examines universities' use of overhead funds in government-sponsored research projects. The Harvard inquiry comes only months after the government released information showing that Stanford University had used overhead monies for inappropriate expenditures...
...before dawn to foil his attempt to sneak quietly back into the country at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. The band played a victory march and the national anthem, and the fans wearing STORMIN' NORMAN FOR PRESIDENT T shirts waved flags and yellow balloons as sea gulls wheeled overhead. "I can't describe to you the emotion that's in all our hearts," he said, with his first words on American soil in 239 days. "It's a great day to be a soldier. It's a great day to be an American...
...state's recommended Scheme Z design for the I-90/Route 1 interchange over the Charles River in East Cambridge, voted to recommend an alternative plan. The group is now considering a number of alternatives, all of which vary from Z by converting one or more of its overhead loops into tunnel form...
...crossing the border into Kuwait is like getting a preview of the apocalypse. In the distance greasy smoke spurts from torched oil wells, sending up dozens of black funnels that look like infernal tornadoes. Overhead the plumes merge to form a charcoal cloud that blocks out the sun. Flakes of white ash tumble from the sky like dry, malignant snow. "Some days are so dark," says a photographer who is covering the fires, "I have to use a flashlight at nine in the morning...