Word: gao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Congressional critics blasted Stanford University earlier this year after reports that the top-ranked school had charged taxpayers for floral arrangements and upkeep on a yacht. Several months later, under pressure from a General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation, Harvard publicly announced that it was withdrawing $500,000 in questionable charges from this year's request for federal reimbursements...
...General Accounting Office (GAO) has only just begun its examination into Harvard Medical School's government billing practices, a federal investigator said yesterday...
...Harvard probe officially began April 3, but the GAO has yet to move beyond the most preliminary stages, the investigator said. The GAO has not finished examining the University's own report, compiled by the outside accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand...
...House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell (D--Mich.), commissioned the GAO to investigate Harvard and is currently beginning preliminary work for a similar investigation...
...GAO investigator Joseph Cohen, who is in charge of the Harvard effort, refused to comment on any specific developments in the inquiry...