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...cost of the new voluntary plan and the creation of more magnet schools will be financed partly by the state of Missouri. It is already paying $20 million a year to the city and county of St. Louis to help defray such expenses as busing in the current limited desegregation program. Hungate may order a new school tax to help finance last week's agreement, a measure that is sure to prove unpopular with both politicians and residents. But in the final analysis, court-ordered busing would have been the most unpopular alternative...
...Sunday meeting, the Council allocated $17 for each of the 25 students who make the trip to defray the $27 round-trip bus fare...
...bundle of electronics, including a powerful radar used by the Soviets to track U.S. naval vessels. In 1978 a similar satellite, Cosmos 954, scattered radioactive fragments over Canada's Northwest Territories. Though no one was killed or injured, the embarrassed Soviets paid Canada $3 million to help defray the cost of the difficult cleanup...
...their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan is hard cash, mainly to help strapped parents defray the expense of the wedding. Acceptable gifts are $100 for a single guest, $150 per couple. For $18,000, the hall provided the Takahashis with food, invitations, thank-you notes, photographs, kimono and formal wear. The 5-ft. wedding cake, however, was cardboard, except for the bride's traditional...
Harvard currently uses the interest from budgets including the student government's to defray costs for accounting and other financial services, preventing financial growth but easing auditing and accounting concerns...