Word: projects
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...become very difficult for universities to keep accurate track of funds," says Howard J. Levy, assistant dean for financial affairs at the SPH. "It's hard to put a time clock in the head of a professor and see when he was thinking about which federally-funded project he may be working on," he adds. Scott says the HEW assessment of the University's record-keeping for wages "seems a little unfair. I would not object as much if they told us to change it in the future," Scott insists, "but they're talking about a system used from July...
Once at Jari, Ludwig ignores the successful projects to concentrate on problem areas. Like a conceptual architect who carries the blueprints in his mind, he supervises new undertakings down to the most minute detail. Yet he is becoming less dictatorial. The present project chief, John Trescot Jr., 54, an ace cost cutter who has been on the job for six months, claims that he can actually argue with him over decisions. Ludwig is beginning to accept a substantial dilution of his authority. He has created an eight-man committee that exercises an overall policymaking role. Also, Ludwig has willed Jari...
There is method in Ludwig's mellowness. The Jari project is approaching the crucial second stage of development. The present pulp mill is planned eventually to turn out 750 metric tons daily, making it moderately large by world standards. If the project is to be fully successful, Ludwig needs to install another plant, which might process pulp into newsprint. Luckily, large deposits of kaolin, a white mineral used in papermaking, have been found on the Jari property...
...MBTA is extending the Red Line three miles northwest to the Alewife Brook Parkway. Total costs for the project, scheduled to be completed in May 1984, are estimated at about half a billion...
Officials from the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, which is financing about 80 per cent of the extension project, ruled last spring that the $1 million in compensation is justifiable, "in the peculiar case of a University...