Word: defrayed
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Meanwhile, the union will urge Securitas to help defray the rising cost of health premiums, Gulish said...
...vote for a Democrat-sponsored bill anyway, he made a point of praising the “Blue Dog” Democrats for strengthening what he called “one of the very best parts of this bill”: a provision that the government would help defray small businesses’ health insurance costs. “We need a few new jobs in this country after Bush got through with us for eight years,” he said, citing that small businesses produce 80 percent of America’s new jobs. For the most part...
...Phillips pointed out the company spent as much as the city (about $1.2 million - $1.5 million) putting on the free event for the public, covering ticketing expenses and the like. The company could defray some of its own costs with memorial DVD or CD sales, but Phillips declined to discuss specifics. "We have had a lot of calls about that," he says of memorial DVDs...
...safety net. Kalithas Krishnan lost his job at a Swiss-owned cargo operator at Changi Airport at the end of March. Today he receives a monthly total of $260 in cash and food coupons from the Singapore Indian Development Association, one of several government-funded charities, plus $55 to defray school expenses for his 16-year-old son. This support may not sound like much, but because Krishnan has fully repaid the mortgage for his three-room public housing estate apartment, thanks in part to a government scheme that allowed him to use his retirement savings to pay down...
Other criticisms of the current climate have focused on debt, bemoaning that gargantuan loans for law school aren't exactly easy to defray. According to the American Bar Association, the average law-school student who graduates this year will do so with a little more than $73,000 in debt. Larry Kramer, dean of Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif., acknowledges there's a problem. "Something about the way the system works has to give," he says. "If you're going to defer someone for a year, there really needs to be a certain degree of loan forgiveness...