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According to a recently completed audit conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and presented to Congress yesterday, the Harvard Medical School included shuttle bus costs, legal fees, travel expenses and athletic facility costs as overhead costs on research charged to the government...
Panelists and subcommittee members yesterday repeatedly lamented the "systemic" problems of the research overhead issue, problems that have resulted in overbillings at dozens of universities...
...allegation that just before he resigned as chairman of American Continental Corp., which had filed for bankruptcy protection, Keating looted the office of various and sundry supplies and had them shipped to a building he had rented. The alleged booty: lamps, typewriters, phone and computer equipment, a Minolta overhead projector and paper. "A myriad of items. Everything you'd need to start a new business," said a lawyer who is familiar with the investigation...
North Star Engine. Most buyers pay lip service to fuel economy but crave power. This high-tech Double Overhead Camshaft (DOHC) aluminum V-8 engine will deliver plenty of the latter and still be reasonably thrifty...
...permanently crippled in a mugging. His wife Claire (the luminous Mary McDonnell) discovers an abandoned baby on her morning run and, afflicted by empty-nest malaise (their son is growing up), begins a campaign to adopt the foundling. An earthquake thunders through town, a neighbor dies suddenly, and overhead the police helicopters endlessly circle, their probing searchlights constant reminders of disorder and imminent sorrow...