Word: benefit
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President Reagan approved using federal money for the project three weeks ago. Scientists are confident that Congress will also approve funding the collider, and they want to see their universities and states benefit from the prestige and economic gains that will accompany the device...
Japanese higher education "is not held in particularly high esteem elsewhere in the world. It could probably benefit from some help," said Assistant Secretary of Education Chester E. Finn Jr., who supervised a Department of Education study of Japanese education...
...successful was the council last semester? How much did students benefit in exchange for the $10 term bill fee that each pays to fund the council...
Welfare programs are run by the states, which set their own eligibility rules and benefit levels within guidelines established by Washington. The Federal Government pays, on the average, 54% of the costs. In about half of the states, families in which both a mother and a father are present can receive benefits, but in the other half only single-parent households qualify. Benefit levels vary widely: in Alabama, for example, a family of three gets about $4,000 a year in AFDC and food-stamp benefits; in Alaska such a family gets about $11,500. Some state officials feel that...
...recent years the nation has been conducting what amounts to an ad hoc experiment in discouraging welfare applicants. Under Reagan Administration prodding, states have tightened eligibility rules. Partly as a result, the number of AFDC families peaked at 3.9 million in 1981 and has declined slightly since. Benefit increases since 1970 have lagged so far behind inflation that the real value of combined federal and state AFDC grants has plummeted...