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...University this week created a $25,000 fund to help student groups defray the costs of performing in Sanders Theatre...
Universal Care. Under this system, the government would draw up a portfolio of minimum care for all Americans. Private companies would continue to offer coverage to workers under employer-paid plans and could devise policies to defray the costs of risky or experimental procedures. A more advanced form of universal care is the "single-payer" system, in which the government would completely replace private insurers and regulate physician fees. Such a system exists in Canada, and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey has made a modified universal plan the centerpiece of his presidential campaign...
Academic departments are also beginning to collect recovery fees for publications. The Government Department is charging $4 for junior tutorial packets to help defray the cost of copying. These packets, too, were free last fall...
...joining the embargo against Iraq -- primarily Egypt, Turkey and Jordan but also Syria, Morocco, Algeria and Poland. As of Nov. 30, according to Washington, allies had pledged $13.4 billion to this cause and so far actually paid $6 billion. America has also sought cash and in-kind contributions to defray U.S. military expenses by allied payments into a special Defense Cooperation account. In a manner befitting a computer age, no cash or even paper changes hands; countries merely make electronic transfers to that account of funds they hold in various U.S. banks. On Nov. 30, the account held $3.9 billion...
Even grandparents who have saved for retirement are feeling the pinch. Ollie Duggan adopted her grandchildren so she could draw further on her dead husband's Social Security to defray the costs of child care. "I'm the mother, the grandmother, the granddaddy, the daddy. I'm it all," she says. Peggy Plante, 49, understands that frustration well. Plante quit her job in a Braintree, Mass., real estate office in 1988 to care for a sickly infant granddaughter born to two teenage, drug-abusing parents. "We give up everything," Plante says, "and nobody looks out after...