Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many union leaders and rank-and-file members have said they would accept wage and benefit concessions to help resurrect Eastern if they were given independence from Texas Air, which acquired the 60-year-old carrier in early 1986 for about $600 million...
...support the [Mikulski] bill's provision ofthe benefit as a supplement rather thanreplacement for existing student aid," saidGresham Riley, president of Colorado College, inhis testimony in Washington last month. "We alsosupport the flexibility that allows part-timeservice while in school or after school to reducedebt...
...subsidized rates, they tend to squander it. An acre- foot that costs Southern California urbanites $230 may cost farmers as little as $10, so even adding in the heavy cost of transporting the water in the state's vast aqueduct system, there is room for both sides to benefit from resale of unneeded irrigation allotments. The idea had two minor drawbacks: many California farmers would sooner spread salt on their fields than surrender an acre-foot of the water they regard as their birthright, and second, Willey's employer, the Environmental Defense Fund, has a reputation for fighting...
...benefit of reduced pesticide use would be less chemical contamination of fish. The waters where fish breed are being polluted by pesticide runoff from the land along with sewage and industrial wastes that are dumped into streams and rivers. Oyster and clam beds that lie close offshore have been especially vulnerable...
...their losses, Schwartz believes, companies must find a way to segregate "career-primary" women from "career-and-family" women. She argues that most working mothers would gladly trade advancement and high pay for the chance to spend more time with their families, and corporations would benefit from retaining them in less demanding middle-management positions...