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According to its website, HSA aims “to help defray rising tuition costs, while providing practical business experience and supplying valuable, necessary services to the Harvard community...
...fraternities routinely rent rooms to outsiders—primarily students from other colleges who are spending the summer in the Boston area—to help defray costs during summer vacations, according to University officials...
...council's new fiscal responsibility could be seen later in the night's last order of business, when after passing a bill setting up the council lock-in, President Fentrice D. Driskell '01 asked each member to bring a dollar to defray expenses...
These days some of Scruggs' best friends have M.D. after their names. Scruggs is the lawyer who, more than any other, was responsible for the $246 billion settlement agreed to by tobacco companies in 1998 to defray the medical costs of smokers who fall ill. And he arrived in Connecticut with a message those managed care-weary doctors were eager to hear: HMOs are next on his target list. "They are second-guessing doctors' medical decisions with accountants and bean counters," he told the crowd indignantly...
...prefers to be called, has accepted, over her militant father's objections, a modest scholarship to Stanford University. He derides the offer as a "Pity the Poor Nigger Scholarship" and tells Ronnee, "You're there, darlin', so their brochures will look good." Since he on principle won't help defray her college expenses, Ronnee wonders if this rich white mother in Texas she's heard about might not turn out to be a "cash...