Word: benefit
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Lavish as it is, the most striking thing about the Teamsters' contract is that it is not really unusual. The Labor Department calculates that wage-and-benefit settlements in this year's first quarter provided a 5.9% median yearly in crease. But a number of contracts signed in the last few weeks have increases equal to or greater than the Teamsters' 28%. Pacts negotiated recently are designed to raise wages and benefits 25% over three years for waiters in Seattle, 39% over three years for West Coast sawmill hands and a gargantuan 49% in 13 months...
...legal penalty could total $1,000,000, but no one could put a price on the possible long-range damage. Even though the swift-flowing Rhine is largely self-cleansing, it may take years before the river restocks itself with fish. There was, however, one possible benefit from last week's case of poisoning. It might well shock the four major Rhine countries-West Germany, The Netherlands, France and Switzerland-into adopting anti-pollution controls that could change the river back from a septic tank into the lovely waterway it once...
...criminal cases, one or two votes could possibly change the balance. Miranda, for example, was decided by a 5-to-4 margin. It may be that Burger and Justices of similar temperament will in the future give the police the benefit of the doubt in resolving close cases based on Miranda. But like other Justices, Burger will be deterred by the doctrine of stare decisis (respect for precedent) from abandoning rules that have been law for three years now. Even so, under Burger's leadership, the court is more likely to return to the role of anchoring the ship...
...university," Harvard President James B. Conant observed at the opening of the Houghton, "is to act as a guardian of the cultural riches of the past. Our libraries and museums serve only in part our own students and our staff. To a large measure they are of benefit to the much greater world of scholars.... We are the servants of a community that extends far beyond these academic walls--our responsibilities transcend both the immediate aims of this institution of learning and the days in which we live...
...narrow Henley course allows only two crews to race at a time, and the loser is eliminated without benefit of a repecharge. Blind draws take the place of seedings, and if Harvard happens to draw Penn early they could be in trouble...