Word: overheads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...circles, tethered to the stadium by a bright rope of white light. Throughout the stadium, the twinkle of ushers' flashlights reminded one of the vastness of the venue, the vastness of the event, and the sense of all-encompassing spectacle was so great that even the stars visible overhead seemed to be some celestial hosts holding up their cigarette lighters in approval...
About $32.3 million of the central administration's budget comes from direct assessments on the faculties--a fee equal to 6.75 percent of a given faculties' salaries and a portion of their research overhead--while $39 million comes from investment...
...core administration budget totaled $83 million in fiscal '96 and came from four major sources: $23.3 million from the University Assessment, which requires each faculty to pay an annual fee of 6.75 percent of its salaries to the center; $9 million from the University's share of research overhead from the federal government; $11.7 million from miscellaneous fees and expenses, and $39 million from interest...
...took charge of the faltering business two years later. Then, as now, he saw acquisitions as the fast-track growth alternative to banging away against the giants for one account at a time. His strategy was to string together local carriers that sold long distance to business users, cutting overhead and paying for the acquisitions with his company's stock. His plan worked so well that anyone who invested $100 in WorldCom stock when the company went public in 1989 would today have a holding worth more than $3,000--by far the best showing in the telecom industry...
...tunnels vary in size, but most are about eight feet square, with 12- and 10-inch steam pipes along each wall-their 380 degree-plus surface temperatures dulled by four inches of insulation. Inside steam rushes by at 100 pounds of pressure. Overhead are the black cables that bring the University power and communications ("We don't have telephone poles," says Secretary of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr. '59), and underfoot is brown residue from shallow pools of groundwater...