Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retirement Benefit. In London, a 45-year-old man arrested for panhandling pleaded to the police: "I am too old to work; I am over...
Established by the late George Ledlie, newspaper executive and associate of Joseph Pulitzer, the award is given semi-annually to recognize the individual at Harvard who has "by research discovered or otherwise made the most valuable contribution to science, or in any way for the benefit of mankind...
...would be impossible to run the University or the College if every administrative decision were referred to the Faculty. Yet there comes, every few years, a critical problem which needs such discussion, and which would benefit substantially from thorough consideration by non-Administrators. Perhaps the revision of the Freshman year is such a question; certainly expansion is sufficiently immediate and pressing so that the Administration should stop playing its cards close to its chest, throwing the matter open to and actively encouraging general faculty discussion...
Spring Tonic. Raises for steelworkers, argued McDonald's committee, would cure all that ails the economy. "Increases in wages must be established in order that purchasing power be expanded for the benefit of the entire nation," said the committee. "Short of government action, such a program offers the only hope of eliminating unemployment and stimulating greater production. There is not the slightest doubt that the industry can afford substantially higher wages and benefits and still remain highly profitable without increasing prices." McDonald announced that his workers expect "a good share" of the industry's "fabulous" profits (see below...
Despite Ike's urging, it was soon clear that the protectionists had accomplished their task. When the chamber issued its 32-page policy statement, some of the strongest bids for free trade were deleted. Gone was the sentence: "For the benefit of the economy of the nation as a whole, business and Government should encourage increased imports into the U.S." Also struck out was the chamber's opposition to "Buy American legislation." A chamber spokesman denied that the chamber had changed its views, called the alterations in the text "little sops that helped quiet the opposition...