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Officially, I've earned them by paying Social Security taxes for 44-plus years. Balderdash. Those taxes wouldn't defray my pension for more than a few years--and they've already been used to pay the pensions of those who retired years and years ago. My pension, in fact, will be paid by people still...
Members of Absolute Sex are committed to advocating abstinence and each put out a $1,000 fee to defray the expenses of the 21-city tour, 45-day bus trip, Myers said...
Hill's friends have established a fund at Firstar Bank to help defray the cost of the funeral. Officials as the bank said donations may be made at any Firstar branch in Wisconsin...
JACKSON, Miss: "I'm leaving Washington shortly to bring home some mighty good news," said a very pleased Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore, announcing a $3 billion settlement with the tobacco industry to defray his state's costs in treating smokers. The settlement came just days before Moore was to set to take the cigarette industry to trial in Mississippi. The deal is separate from the $368.5 billion national settlement reached with the industry July 20, in which Moore acted as lead negotiator for several states. In his original lawsuit, filed in 1994, Moore sought $940 million for tax funds...
...only way to defray costs is to charge exorbitant prices for tickets. Either that or hold up a bank," she says...