Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unilaterally denounced by Russia in 1955 -and wondered whether De Gaulle would attempt to deal bilaterally with Moscow once again. And though France is treaty-bound to NATO for the next eleven years. Washington remembers that De Gaulle once described NATO as "an American protectorate without even the benefit of efficient protection." Still suspicious of Germany, he is less of a European than France's recent Premiers. He would make France a difficult ally...
...recession-plagued Detroit, fearful of foreign economic competition, Acheson made a to-the-point plea for liberalized foreign trade and for deploying more U.S. funds overseas as an answer to Russia's growing economic challenge. Said Acheson: "Does anybody in this state seriously doubt the vast benefit its citizens have received from the purchase and export by foreign aid programs over nine years of $3.1 billion of motor vehicles, iron and steel items, machinery and chemicals, not to mention $9 billion of other industrial and agricultural items? In 1955, the last year for which we have figures, over...
...comes naturally. He never played fewer than five encores; he sat down at a piano everywhere and at the slightest provocation any hour of the day or night. He insisted on playing the whole of his Leningrad program at a rehearsal several hours before the evening concert for the benefit of conservatory students unable to buy tickets. When he visited Tchaikovsky's grave in Leningrad, he delighted his guides by taking some Russian earth back with him, plans to use it to plant a Russian lilac cutting at Rachmaninoff's grave near Valhalla in New York...
Those who referred to the rate at all, did so in somewhat glowing and Utopian terms. Contributions were expected for a better future. John Grogan, one student, recalled the attitude as, "Someday the money will benefit someone...
...cent of their profits at the end of the year, whether the assessment is subtracted from their earnings on a weekly or monthly basis, or whether they will have to pay the rate at all. The establishment and explanation of an adequate system of assessment would be a great benefit...