Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undergraduates is not, however, the issue. The proposal which the Masters have made is a temporary way of supplying people to live in the Houses in lieu of non-existent undergraduates. Their suggestion is economically sound--it costs nothing and pays its own way. It worked to the benefit of the Houses in the 1930's; there is no reason why it should not do so again...
...Mitchell was basing his rosy-pink prediction on a recent Labor Department finding on the current high unemployment rate.* The finding: as business picks up, many industrial employers are paying for overtime instead of hiring or rehiring additional workers. Reason: liberal labor contracts have added so many fringe-benefit costs to each employee that it is cheaper-up to a point-to work fewer employees overtime than to add others. For evidence, the Labor Department points out that from January 1958 to January 1959, the number of production workers employed in U.S. industry actually declined by 1.7%, while the number...
...newest fad is conversation. It is based on a new version of the old Hollywood conviction that the opinions of any performer, expressed with or without benefit of pressagent, are worth hearing. TV's talk fad has produced a flock of conversationalists who cheerfully regard themselves as a generation of bright, chatty vipers, convinced that they can turn banality into "frankness" and delight millions by their daring...
Though the Treasury has long opposed such cuts, it is beginning to heed the rising chorus from businessmen that a tax slash would actually benefit the budget by reducing the need for foreign aid. Last week the Treasury was actively considering some tax concessions to spur foreign investment...
...Boating Club, M.I.T., and commercial, civic, and neighborhood groups, presented further objections to the committee, including serious flood danger, loss of recreational and civic assets, and the cost to the city of providing additional schools and services for the project, which, they said, would more than offset any tax benefit that it would provide...