Breakfast clubs and after-school activities also offer children a chance to escape from troubled home lives.

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One added that his teenage son had just quit his after-school activities to save his family money.

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott have warned that schools would have to freeze hiring and cut after-school activities and other programs to make up for the midyear funding cut.

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By contrast, Ennahda is able to finance thousands of neighborhood offices, where party workers run after-school activities for local children, donate items to needy families, or help neighbors sort out administrative headaches.

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Expenses for nannies and after-school activities count too.

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Time Warner Cable is joining with the Coalition for Science After School and FIRST Robotics -- the program created by inventor Dean Kamen, which gave us the "Cougar Cannon" -- to connect one million students with fun after-school activities, like robotics competitions.

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He also says that schools benefit from teachers who live locally, making it possible to run after-school clubs and other evening activities.

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She said many students can easily achieve that goal through recess activities, gym class and after-school sports.

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He holds an MBA from a prestigious business school in Brussels and kept his economic activities running throughout the war, looking after family-owned coffee plantations and wood factories.

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