Word: defray
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During the past 25 years, millions of students have received Federal Government loans to help defray their college expenses. But 1.5 million of them have since flunked a morality test: they have failed to repay their debts, leaving Uncle Sam holding the bag for $1.8 billion. Last year Education Department officials used a computer search to identify 46,000 federal employees among the defaulters. Result: 5,000 promptly anted up $2.3 million. Now the remaining 41,000 are being told they must pay up in 30 days or their wages will be garnisheed at the rate of 15% per paycheck...
...club members refused a $98 funding allocation from the Undergraduate Council because they claimed it was insufficient to defray costs, which they estimated at $3000. "Aspiring entrepreneurs should be capable of fundraising, "explains Scott Mize...
Cambridge will remove all asbestos insulation from city schools this summer regardless of whether or not the state legislature approves a pending bill allocating money to help defray the costs, city officials said Friday...
...attempt to defray operating costs, the Fogg Art Museum will soon change its long-standing policy of free admission by charging non-student visitors...
...civil rights group also says the men were under police surveillance for weeks before the crime spree began, and that the trial which ended in a life sentence was highlighted by police perjury and coaching of witnesses by the prosecutor. Public contribution to a special fund will help defray the cost of defending the men (Williams is about to be tried), and assist in the fight to overturn Geter's sentence...