Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bigger towns might consider it a boondoggle or an eyesore. But the depressed West Texas ranching town of Marfa (pop. 2,500) is delighted about the economic benefit of a 240-ft. radar surveillance balloon that the Customs Service has tethered nearby and plans to fly at an altitude of 14,000 ft. One of six in a planned network along the Mexican border, the helium-filled aerostat can spot suspected drug-smuggling planes up to 200 miles away, then flash data to authorities who will try to intercept the aircraft...
...unselfish and connected to the earth. We can pretend that 30- ft.-long, black-tinted-glass, air-conditioned limos are unfashionable because we know that real men don't need air conditioning. We can pretend that we believe it is wrong to loot the earth for the benefit of a single generation of a single species. We can pretend to care about our children's world...
...Bell's view, the school's departure is inextricably linked with Proposition 1-2-3, which he says would benefit Blacks if approved...
Zimmerman says that all the new forced costs will benefit student groups. "It will be easier for them to plan their budgets," she says...
According to Demong, HRE's new policy labels domestic partner as "couples with committed relationships for their mutual support and benefit. [Domestic partners] must interact as a family and share living expenses." And in the settlement, the University said it would ask domestic partners to verify that their relationships have been going on for six or more months with such evidence as joint bills or bank statements...