Word: defrayed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...phones to extend their reach outside their local regions. The long-distance carriers want to use them to connect to customers without having to pay monopoly rates (45 cents on every dollar) to the Baby Bells. And the cable-TV operators need the revenues from wireless telephone to defray the cost of turning aging, one-way cable systems into modern, switched two-way networks. Said Tele-Communications Inc. CEO John Malone last week: "In effect, we are starting a new national telephone company...
...come to its shores, Florida called on Washington to admit that the situation had all the makings of a crisis. Governor Lawton Chiles declared an "immigration state of emergency," allowing him to call out the National Guard to help rescue, shelter and screen refugees. He demanded that Washington help defray the costs of health care, social services and law enforcement for the newcomers, which he estimates will approach $1 billion this year. "All of us feel for rafters," Chiles said Saturday, "but Florida cannot stand another influx...
Bill and Hillary Clinton officially set up their legal defense fund today, the first for a sitting president. The war chest is to help defray the mounting costs of the Whitewater investigation and Paula Jones sexual-harassment suit. Contributions of under $1,000 are being accepted from individuals only. All donations will be disclosed to the public. Have a hankering to help out? Mail your contribution to the Presidential Legal Expense Trust Fund, Department 70, Washington, D.C. 20055-0070. Oh, and for Paula's fund, mail to Paula Jones Legal Defense Fund, Washington...
Toth said the University's agreement with Sun increases the effiency and lowers the costs of departments around Harvard. He said the University has a cost-sharing plan which allows departments to defray some costs--including those related to computers, Toth said...
...friend and blues singer Bonnie Raitt '72 and several smaller acts performed a 1992 benefit concert in the Orpheum Theater in Boston to honor Little and to help defray his medical costs...