Word: defray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospective workers. The new law grants amnesty to illegal aliens who can show that they entered the country before Jan. 1, 1982, and have lived here continuously since then, a provision that may benefit as many as 8 million people. Congress provided $4 billion to states to help defray increased costs for schools and social services used by newly legalized aliens...
Reardon and Glimp say the higher-priced tickets will help defray the celebration's $1 million price-tag. "I don't feel we ought to use scholarship money to finance the extravaganza," says Glimp...
...answer in each case is the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, which unfolds where it started, within the ivy-covered remnant walls of a onetime Chautauqua dome in the folksy college town of Ashland (pop. 15,000). The first season, three performances, was accompanied by boxing matches to defray costs. The fights lost money. The theater made a profit. Today the Ashland operation, revered on the West Coast but largely unknown elsewhere, has an annual budget of $5.5 million and sells more than 90% of capacity...
...teammates include Sukova (7), Andrea Holikova (78) and Regina Marsikova (79). In return for a passport, each of the athletes has agreed to clear participation in tournaments with the board, pay 20% of after-expense prize money to the federation, and kick in an additional $3,000 annually to defray travel expenses for junior players...
Following an announcement two months ago that renovations of Eliot Hall would be delayed until next spring to defray costs, the College reversed that decision and has started making repairs on the Cabot House dormitory...