Word: afield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite the new accounting rules, tuition will remain the packhorse of academic finance. Parents may think their checks to Penn pay for a specific basket of services, such as the few hours a professor actually spends in class. In fact, tuition money flies rather far afield. Much of it supports legions of administrators, secretaries, groundkeepers, maintenance crews and campus cops--security being an especially crucial and large expense at Penn, which is located on the tough west bank of the Schuylkill River...
Just how far afield the money goes is made starkly clear in Penn's latest indirect-cost proposal to the Department of Health and Human Services, which the government uses to determine how much money Penn can recoup from each federal grant to cover the overall cost of operating the university and which TIME acquired under the Freedom of Information Act. In a stack of paper as thick as a large-type Bible, Penn laid itself bare, disclosing everything from the $208,795 allocated to cover the cost of operating the university president's $1.4 million...
Telmex is now a $17 billion enterprise, and Slim is looking further afield in more ways than one. His main strategic objective is to diversify the company away from ordinary telephone services and into data transmission, videoconferencing and the Internet. "Long-distance communications are old news," he told Time...
...Farther afield and five years after the war, other coalition members watch Iraq through a more complex lens. Gratitude for defeating Saddam back then is tempered today by new interests and demands. Turkey's Islamist government is keen to revive relations with its old trading partner. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are mindful of growing fundamentalist and dissident oppositions that demand Muslim solidarity above all. Frustration over the lack of peace progress colors the reaction elsewhere in the Arab world. Fearing the impact of a real rift, Kuwaiti officials fanned out to make sure the rest of the gulf understood their...
Although chiropractic clearly has its drawbacks (notably its stubborn insistence that spinal misalignments cause or underlie most ailments, including those far afield from the backbone), its use of vertebral manipulation has proved useful not only in treating acute low-back pain and other muscular and neurological problems but also in comforting patients who appreciate the deft way skilled chiropractors use their hands. (Osteopaths, licensed physicians whose education is essentially the same as that of M.D.s, also include manipulative therapy in their treatments.) Studies at the University of Miami School of Medicine's Touch Research Institute have found that premature infants...