Word: refundable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal government will ask the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for a refund of $7 million it loaned the state to build a criminal records computer because the project has not been completed...
...Talmadge's case, the committee considered a variety of damning words, including "reprimand" and "condemn." None of them seemed quite right, but last week the panel hit on a semantic solution: it unanimously recommended that the full Senate "denounce" Talmadge for "reprehensible" behavior and require him to refund at least $13,000. Undismayed, Talmadge, who is running for re-election to a fifth term, claimed that the verdict exonerated him of intentional wrongdoing. Said Georgia's senior Senator: "I feel the result is a personal victory...
...value, usually 5? or 10?, but also a handling fee that may be as high as 5? and is mostly profit for the store. Most shoppers would probably find the supershopping routine very exhausting. Samtur spends five hours a week clipping coupons, filing cents-off labels and mailing out refund requests, which average 100 a month. She tears labels while watching TV; when she takes her children to the doctor, she cuts coupons from the magazines in the waiting room...
...headquarters of NIH, Cohen got a more sympathetic response. After an NIH audit, the agency hit Harvard for a refund of $132,000. "Most of Cohen's allegations had substance," says NIH Division Manager James Shriver. "When we completed our investigation of his activities, Harvard made restitution almost immediately." But NIH was sufficiently aroused to ask for a broader investigation by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW's preliminary findings, released earlier this year, hit Cambridge like a ton of red tape: HEW auditors questioned the way Harvard accounted for 40% of $37 million in federal...
However, Vazquez gives a different account of his conversation with Shinagel. He said, "I submitted two written complaints. One to the ad hoc committee (in the Summer School to review refund cases) and one to the Administrative Board. When he told me to do that (submit a written complaint), I told him that I had in fact already submitted those letters. He then said, 'Well I stand by the decision of my colleagues...