Word: defray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself all over the world. Harvard's Professor G. Ernest Wright, president of the American School of Oriental Research, recalls how in the Middle East he met "the son of an Iranian government official with a suitcase full of ancient works of art," which he was selling to defray his university expenses. Turkey has some 3,000 archaeological sites, of which only a fraction have been excavated by trained and government-sanctioned archaeological teams. The rest are simply raped. Even the official digs are ill-protected by a skeleton force of guards, who are paid an average...
Donations are needed to defray legal costs for Samuel L. Popkin. Checks should be made out to the Popkin Legal Fund and mailed to the Fund, care of Government Department, Littauer M-22, Cambridge, Mass...
...automatic seats for party officers or elected officials; an "endeavor" on the part of each state for equal representation of men and women; no abridgment of the right to participate for reasons of "race, sex, religion, age, color or national origin"; and provision of state committee funds to defray a delegate's expenses. Percy, pursuing a different tack, is trying to change the current delegate "bonus" system, arguing that it enables small states to swing more weight relative to their size than large states...
...nominal cost, does lie within the current University structure. In a statement entitled "Innovation in Teaching and Education," Bok outlines the proposals which would be considered under the program of grants for educational experiments that was cited in his remarks to the Faculty. The grants are intended to defray the costs of developing new courses or "new modes of instruction," to offset lost compensation for teaching time sacrificed in developing new programs, and to subsidize experiments in the development of graduate students as teachers. In eight months, there has been no further word on the projects to be funded...
...owned vessels at a time will be allowed to fish the rich shrimp waters along Brazil's coast. The U.S. accepted Brazil's right to board, search and seize shrimp boats that have committed infractions. Furthermore the U.S. will pay the Brazilian government $200,000 to help defray the costs of surveillance...