Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comic strip that has run fewer than a dozen times. Usually you wait for a cartoonist to find his rhythm and his own particular voice. But Breathed has been cartooning a widely popular strip for most of this decade, so I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of time. He has shown arrogance in flushing his successful "Bloom County" to begin this "Outland" strip. One naturally expects a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist to show us his best stuff early to quiet his critics...
...Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the proposal would cut taxes for 8 million couples and individuals, with 80 percent of the benefit going to those with total yearly incomes above $100,000. Those making less than $50,000 a year would get 5.6 percent of the benefit; those at that level who report capital gains would get cuts averaging $15 a year...
...time of the change in management, some student leaders said they feared that HRE would run Mem Hall as a business and not as a facility for the benefit of undergraduates...
Zimmerman said she thought the change would benefit student groups. "It will be easier for them to plan their budgets," she said...
Perhaps Harvard would be more cooperative about granting credit if students were held more accountable for work completed away from Cambridge. Increased accountability would benefit students who would presumably be able to get more credit more often for their efforts. In addition, Harvard might gain a healthy sense of perspective and realize that quality education extends further than the shuttle bus system...