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...Harvard Medical School will soon be a target of a federal probe to determine whether the school has unfairly billed the government for overhead costs on research grants, The Crimson learned from federal investigators yesterday...
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...
...Well," explained my friend's boss, an even more senior partner, "we absolutely have to." He went around the barn a few times: "Conditions on Wall Street . . . Got to trim overhead . . . No reflection...
...occupants of the DC-9 were not so fortunate. Smoke and toxic fumes engulfed the cabin as flames flickered from the tail section. "The explosion came from the back of the plane," recalled passenger Fred Guyor. "Suddenly all this shrapnel came flying overhead, like a wave in the ocean." The survivors poured out of two exits, some breaking bones as they jumped when an evacuation chute failed to open...
Indeed, as cut-rate malls turn themselves into theme parks, with frills and flourishes and higher overhead costs, their primary advantage -- lower prices -- just might start to disappear. For now, though, did we leave the car by the talking toucan, or was it the pink flamingo...