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...social functions help to perpetuate our success on the field by serving as alumni fundraisers, which help defray the costs of coaching, equipment and transportation during the season. In addition, they help us to maintain our cohesion as a team, but obviously far less so than determination and hard work in practice...
...imprudent to release the AIDS-infected primates, who were born in captivity, into the wild. So the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, which breeds the chimps and contracts them out to research organizations, charges customers $30,000 per animal to set up what amounts to a retirement plan to defray the cost of caring for the primates during their golden years. While subject to experiments, the chimps live alone in huts, but when their brief working lives are over, they are gathered into colonies of eight or ten in in-door-outdoor block houses that give them room to romp...
...Harvard-affiliated hospitals can care for people who contract AIDS or test positive for the virus, say directors. An insurance program introduced this year at UHS to help cover pharmaceutical costs will help defray costs for AZT, an expensive drug used to treat AIDS, they...
Greene, a radio producer who used to work on A's broadcasts for station KSFO, San Francisco, this year added the Pittsburgh Pirates to his service and got a beer company to help defray costs in exchange for a plug. Eventually he hopes to expand to all 26 major league parks. So far, most of the media Mittys are male, but females are also starting to find their way into the booth. "Women announcers are generally quite good," says Greene. "The difference is they seem to take more of an interest in the aesthetics of the % players' physiques...
...million annually on administration in the West Bank, appealed to Arab leaders to honor past financial commitments, as well as new ones, to both the P.L.O. and Jordan. He was turned down on both counts. Instead, the summiteers voted to pay the P.L.O. $128 million directly to defray the costs of the intifadeh so far, plus $43 million a month to keep the uprising alive. (Not a dinar of that pledge has so far reached the P.L.O.) At the same time, the Arab leaders reiterated their 1974 position that the P.L.O. was the "sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people...