Word: defray
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stock in Italian firms. The church until recently either controlled or owned a substantial part of at least a dozen important enterprises, including cement-making Italcementi, paper-manufacturing Cartiere Burgo, pasta-making Molini Biondi and Vianini, a major engineering firm. The investments provide a handsome income to help defray the huge cost of running the papal establishment. But social unrest is growing in Italy. Anxious to align the church with the working class, the Vatican wants to escape any onus for closing inefficient plants, laying off workers or sitting on the other side of the bargaining table when unions...
Neither a date nor a performer has as yet been chosen for another upcoming concert in the Stadium. This concert will be sponsored by the City of Boston; the proceeds from this concert will help to defray the expenses of "Summerthing," Boston's summertime arts festival...
...class citizens") was not suggested. The code does propose that Senators file copies of their income tax returns with the committee-though in fact the committee already has authority to demand tax returns of any Senator. It sanctions acceptance by Senators of contributions to run their campaigns and to "defray the reasonable costs" of their offices, provided that any individual contribution of $50 or more becomes publicly disclosed...
...Divinity School, for example, seems headed this way. On December 15 its faculty unanimously passed a resolution supporting Divinity School draft resisters. It read in part: "We encourage members of our School community to join those who have pledged financial assistance to help defray the legal costs incurred by the resistance." The Faculty reportedly came close to pledging Divinity School money to this cause...
...wrote to three Chicago friends: "It was a mistake on my part not to realize that your well-intentioned desire to help would be subject to misunderstanding and misinterpretation." With that, Chuck dissolved the controversial "Percy Group," a six-month-old fund-raising campaign intended to help the Senator defray his considerable office expenses...