Word: benefit
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...unrelated to their needs and a "moral justification" for receiving it. After all, rent control in Cambridge, according to its enabling act, was a response to a housing emergency that was burdensome "especially for families of low and moderate income." The truth is that the system doesn't especially benefit low-and moderate-income people...
...valuable than service to the university. Truth, learning and service to country can each be components of selfish pursuits as well as selfless ones. But unique to the idea of service to country is the desire to place the needs of our society above our own interests. Those who benefit do so regardless of race, color, religion or sexual preference. Brian C. Harrington '87 and 13 other students in Harvard ROTC
...flat-footed. Now Chicago Bear Willie Gault has pirouetted from the end zone to the ballet | world. Trading cleats and pads for leotards and slippers, the fleet wide receiver leaped to new heights last week with a troupe of inner-city youths and the Chicago City Ballet in a benefit for the Better Boys Foundation. Gault, 26, put in five practice sessions (but no chalk talk) for his number to the music of Webern. He was partnered by Ballerina Maria Terezia Balogh, whom he lifted with the greatest of ease before an appreciative audience that included Teammate Jim McMahon. Says...
...their profits on investments, ranging from stocks to real estate. The current top rate for taxing such gains is effectively 20%, but after this year, those profits will be taxed as regular income at higher rates. "I've seen a lot of my clients already selling stocks to benefit from the lower rate," says Mike Ryan, a Chicago financial planner...
Because rates will be lower next year, many taxpayers can benefit by shifting 1986 income into the future. Ryan suggests that people in the current top tax brackets ask their employers to hold back part of their pay until next year. Similarly, lawyers, dentists and other professionals may want customers to take a few months longer to pay their bills so that the money comes in when rates are lower. Their customers might resist that idea, however, since they will want to take their deductions while rates are still high...