Word: benefit
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...restoration five years ago. Not only does the theater have one of the largest stages in the world--60 feet by 90 feet--but it is also the largest theater in Boston, with a seating capacity of 4225. Because of its size, the Wang also hosts a number of benefit concerts and other events each year...
...Extend authority to issue tax-exempt bonds to benefit lower-income first-time homebuyers through June...
...exemption will probably benefit those low-income families that own their own homes, said David E. Sullivan, the only member of the City Council to vote against the increase. But, while he called the increase "progressive" in spirit, he said it would hurt a large segment of the families it was designed to protect...
...Governor boasts that since ET began in 1983, it has placed 52,000 people in jobs and saved the taxpayers $280 million through reduced benefits and increased tax revenue. State officials say the welfare rolls declined 6.5%. But most of the jobs are barely above the minimum wage, and the 52,000 represents about a quarter of all the people who have been eligible. As workfare, it is all carrot, no stick; no one is faced with a benefit cutoff if he or she refuses to work. As a result, much of the hard-core Underclass is beyond the reach...
...design or not, Rabin's new crackdown may have the political benefit of reassuring Israeli voters who deem the Labor Party soft on the Palestinians. The right-wing Likud bloc of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refuses to surrender any of the West Bank and Gaza, and some members even boast they could crush the intifadeh in weeks. Labor leader Shimon Peres has endorsed proposals for negotiations that would return some territory to Arab rule, which many interpret as signifying an inability to quell the rebellion. Rabin seems determined to prove them wrong. Said Shamir media adviser Avi Pazner...