Word: benefit
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...INSTRUCTIONS that the flight attendants bark out during every flight are equally stupid. For the benefit of anyone who hasn't been in a car in the last 20 years, the attendants explain how to put on a seatbelt. For the benefit of the very stupid, the attendants point out that it is wise to extinguish cigarettes before putting on an oxygen mask. For anyone anxious to struggle out of a seat and stand in the aisles for a half-hour while the landing crew tries to open the doors, the attendants suggest waiting until the plane has landed before...
Silent Sins, which will use its reciepts to benefit Harbor Me, a group for battered women, is often as didactic as inventive. Yet outstanding individual performances and a gripping message recommend it as a play worth seeing...
...Benefit for ESWA...
More than 600 people were kept in stitches Saturday night during the Harvard Lampoon's Comedy Night, a three-hour charity event to benefit Phillips Brooks House...
...million shipment has sown a heap of controversy. Some federal and state officials have charged that the free seed from the North may not be suitable for Southern soil. The Federal Crop Insurance Corp. warns that farmers who use the seed against Government advice could be declared ineligible for benefit programs. But many argue that they have no choice. Says Tom Trantham of Pelzer, S.C.: "We have to survive...