Word: defray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most food programs you wind up with canned goods," says Kroger Vice President Jack Partridge. After studying food banks, Kroger found that poor people's diets often lack fresh fruit, milk, bread and potatoes. The customer donations defray Kroger's cost of issuing food stamps for twelve such selected perishables to needy recipients. Since it was launched in March, the program has dispensed about $5,000 a week in food...
...late 1970s most were teachers from elite Eastern prep schools. Bread Loaf "was failing in its social responsibility," says Paul Cubeta, a Middlebury humanities professor who has directed the program since 1965. "So we went looking in rural America for potential educational leaders." Foundation funds were raised to help defray the $2,500 cost for tuition and board. Over the past ten years nearly 500 rural instructors have studied in the shadow of the distinctly flattened mountain that gives the school its name. This summer 73 came to Bread Loaf from small towns in 32 states...
...went on to score several collegiate home-runs by winning the American Friends of the London School of Economics fellowship for a year of study at that institution, Radcliffe college's Mildred Percival Sherman fellowship, whose $2000 stipend she will use to defray costs at the London school, and the two to three year Mellon fellowship for the humanities, which will enable her to pursue a Master's in Philosophy at Columbia University starting in the fall...
...distress over the case were everywhere. Some Israelis felt sorry for Pollard and his wife Anne Henderson-Pollard, who had received a five-year prison sentence. Fearful that their country was deserting devoted friends, a newly formed group called Citizens for Pollard collected thousands of dollars to help defray the Pollards' legal costs. Said one of the group's organizers, Yehoshua Gilboa: "We were brought up never to leave either wounded or dead behind on the battlefield." But who was the enemy...
Organizers may try to offer the course next year if they can publish the sourcebook commercially, a move which would defray costs...