Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impending Congressional probe into the Harvard Medical School's use of federal overhead funds reveals any wrongdoing, the University may lose more than just hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...Vietnam Veterans Memorial were warm, almost animate to the touch. A blond teenage girl with a paper dove in her hair from an antiwar rally stood near two fortyish men talking softly about a bungled mortar attack a generation and half a world away. Two helicopters whirred overhead, the sound both jarring and fitting. Odd how certain names leaped to the eye and touched the heart. Irvin W. Prosser Jr., Zygmunt Kowalewski, Sherl K. Bonnett. Strangers all, so there were no images of them as soldiers or as high school classmates. Instead the vision came of proud fathers, perhaps survivors...
When the air-raid sirens wail, Tali Rubin, 9, dashes to the "sealed room" in her home in the middle-class Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill, quickly dons her gas mask and, along with her mother, brother and two sisters, waits nervously for the missiles to roar overhead. Her first experience with wearing the protective device was distressing. "It was hard to breathe," recalls Tali. "The mask was too tight. I just wanted to take it off." As the attacks on Israel intensified last week, misery turned to anger. "I'm mad at Saddam Hussein," she declares...
This means that for every dollar that the government awards faculty members in grant monies, the University receives an additional 88 cents, which is to be used as overhead but is not specifically earmarked by the government for certain expenses...
...University gives the money for indirect costs to the Medical School for renovations, overhead, and other research-related needs, according to Scott...