Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is our final run-through for The New Discipline. We're going to list our top options for different kinds of disciplinary problems, for the benefit of the Big Guy here. Are the cue cards ready? What about the anatomically correct dolls...
...short-term effect on the overall market is uncertain, it is sure to encourage investors to reshuffle the lineup in their portfolios, selling stock in companies that can be expected to pay higher taxes under the revised rules and buying the shares of firms that will benefit from the changes. The losers may include companies in such capital-intensive industries as utilities, chemicals, semiconductors and steel, which will relinquish numerous tax breaks. The investment tax credit will be dropped, for example, and depreciation schedules will be stretched out from 19 years to 31.5 years for commercial buildings, making plant expansion...
...other side, tax reform will help many companies, including retailers and manufacturers of food and household products. Such firms have generally enjoyed few tax preferences. They stand to gain substantially when the top corporate tax rate falls from 46% to 34%. The makers of consumer goods will also benefit because the reduction in individual tax rates is expected to cause a $40 billion surge in personal spending...
...coffee house set mixed with the soup kitchen crowd last night at a seven-hour benefit concert for the homeless in the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...
...Benefit concerts need to address the issues which they're put together for," Pratt said of last night's concert. "People can only do things to make the world a better place if they have some information to work with, and the typical fundraising event doesn't give any information," he added...