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...think Blair's plan to require fees of up to €4,360 per year will discourage poorer applicants. The government tried to counter this complaint by deferring all repayments until the graduate earns at least €21,800 per year. The poorest third would also get grants to defray some of their debts. But Nick Brown, a former Agriculture Minister and leading rebel, thinks this won't help the hardworking lower-middle classes who are Labour's core voters. "This plan would 'dumb down' our people," he argues. For many opponents, the fine points of policy aren...
...order to defray some of the cost of bringing a prominent group to Harvard, he says that placing the event under the banner of a larger cause, such as “support for a cure for AIDS,” would attract the interest of these groups and make them willing to perform at a lower cost...
First there were Undergraduate Council-funded room parties. Then the College pitched in to help pay for dry, campus-wide alternatives. Now, Hillel is stepping up to help defray costs for gatherings of a more cultural and religious nature...
According to Steen, Northwestern raised room rates for every student by $120 a year to defray costs of setting up the cable system...
...other drugs. To combat that problem, Viropharma, the biotech company that developed pleconaril, decided to reformulate the pill, turning it into a nasal spray, thereby lowering its dose and the chance that it might interfere with other drugs. Viropharma is now looking for another pharmaceutical company to help defray the costs of testing the new formula...