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...budget is currently kept in a University account like other college budgets where interest is used to defray accounting cost...
...immediately eligible for permanent resident status; those here since January 1980 will be accorded tem porary resident status with the prospect of permanent status after three years. Neither group could collect most federal benefits for several years; the bill also proposes block grants for the states to help defray the costs of absorbing those who are granted amnesty...
...N.A.A.C.P.'S $7 million budget for 1982 has been earmarked for the case that important programs will have to be curtailed." From the moment the legal papers were initiated, we have stated that none of the money allocated for programs will be used for the suit. To defray costs, the N.A.A.C.P. has created a special fund-raising committee...
...aboard a fleet of 50 buses and a twelve-car Amtrak special dubbed the Peace Train. Planners expect Ohio alone to be represented by more than 10,000 participants from dozens of communities; West Virginia and Minnesota will send 500 demonstrators apiece. Some local groups helped raise money to defray costs for those who wanted to take part. At an interdenominational church service in Birmingham a week ago, a special collection netted $385 for that city's 15 travelers. Sisters at the Annunciation Convent in tiny Kiln, Miss., pooled their resources so that one of their members could attend...
...fairness, the calm approach to crisis management that so recommended Derek Bok 11 years ago has helped him defray crises as President. Not that experiences like the 1972 takeover didn't accelerate his practical education in coping with troubled students Shortly after that event, Bok formed the part-student Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR); though he said he'd been planning to create the ACSR for some time, it took an event like PALC's takeover to shock him into action...