Word: benefit
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...still other applications, the intense magnetic fields that might someday be generated by the new superconductors should benefit any device that now uses electromagnetism in its operation -- medical diagnostic imaging machines, magnetically levitated trains, fusion-energy generators -- and will undoubtedly spawn a host of new machines. Electric motors could increase in power and shrink in size...
Perhaps the worst threat facing PTL is the loss of federal tax exemption. The tax code says that "no part" of an exempt group's earnings should benefit an individual. The IRS allows employees reasonable salaries but regularly yanks the exemptions of charities that give excessive pay and perks...
...surplus that will be left of these foods will be sent to starving children in Africa. This will have the extra benefit of making it impossible for your mother to tell you that there are children in Africa wishing fot the chance to eat your brussel sprouts...
...modern political science?" On the other hand, the Yale anthropologist Leopold Pospisil (who is a member of the NAS), wrote to Katz that he "very much like [Katz's] letter as a critique of the social sciences," and he asked Katz's permission to reproduce his letter "for the benefit of students and colleagues...
Raising the speed limit to 65 would probably benefit truckers, who could travel 10 more miles every hour. But the costs of this aren't worth it. The increase in highway fatalities alone would offset this benefit. If one more person died because of an increase in the speed limit, it would not be worth...