Word: defray
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami convention next month. But Jimmy is not the sort to take any chances: his headquarters admitted last week that an "independent" committee (headed by Hoffa lieutenants) had sent letters putting the bite on the union's 3,000 fulltime staff members for $25 each "to defray the election campaign expenses" of Jimmy and Secretary-Treasurer John English...
...idea is still extremely tentative, according to Dean Monro, but it may take more definite shape once the pressure of the 1961 training and placement program is out of the way. Monro hopes that money will become available to defray the construction of costs of a new secondary school, to be staffed by the University, but to be directed by local Nigerian authorities...
Under present arrangements, the Carnegie Foundation will handle administrative expenses, and the International Cooperation Administration, through the Afro-American Institute, will supply money for the students' room and board. The participating countries will defray transportation costs, and the American schools will provide free instruction...
...other action, Mrs. Wheeler spoke in favor of an authorization of $7,000 to defray part of the cost of a study of the city hospital system. "Improvements have been needed for a long time," she said, "but it is hard to know how to get started." Hamilton Associates of Minneapolis, hospital consultants, will conduct the study...
...said this attitude could be rectified if the officials "had half a brain do it." It is time, he opined, for the MTA to give Cambridge citizens a break. The 4-4 vote failed to give the motion majority. MTA regulations require cities to defray a of its deficit. All Councillors, including those who favored the motion, seemed concede this, and off-handedly acknowledge that the City Manager would have the bill even if the measure had carried...