Word: defray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected assault on the Clean Air Act is chugging along steadily. And among the proposals the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency have recently put forth for Congressional consideration are plans to sell hundreds of millions of acres of federally held lands, in an effort to defray part of the staggering federal deficit...
...expression, freedom of assembly and the right to a judicial hearing before detention. The Sandinista government has put the press under strict censorship and restricted travel abroad for government officials, military personnel and political figures. In addition, a special new patriotic defense contribution will be levied to help defray defense costs...
...initial $3 million will go to a "stabilization fund" to defray potential operating and maintenance cost overruns. The $3 million to the raised by 1984 will serve as an unrestricted, all purpose fund for the new museum...
...February 2 letter mailed to Fogg supporters, Bok expressed fears that a plan to sell art to defray the operating costs of the proposed building would jeopardize the search for a new director...
...yourself the following questions: 1) a. How great a fraction of funds and support donated to the organizations that want you to boycott the corporation (in this case Nestle) actually goes to alleviate the alleged problems? b. How great a fraction to pay the organizers' salaries and to defray costs of printed material and the like? The answers...