Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armor and the use of the gas mask. Guardsmen outmaneuvered the Army in dismounted drill, a Guard specialty, and night training (in which neither group scored high). But overall, 84% of the Army recruits passed the tests satisfactorily, compared to 56.5% of the Guardsmen. The inference: Guard recruits would benefit from six months' active-duty training...
Elder explained that these proposals "would benefit a student in several ways: his self-confidence and self-responsibility would be thus increased; he would be given more uninterrupted time for continued work on what interests him; and in general, the quality of his education should thus be improved...
...mood to bargain, and he took pains at his 101st press conference to make clear that Dulles would stay on the job. The critics, he noted, talked only generally about blunders and lack of leadership, but made "no constructive proposals for what even should have been done with the benefit of hindsight." As for Dulles, he had been training for his job ever since his grandfather was Secretary of State, and "during those years he studied and acquired a wisdom and experience and knowledge that I think is possessed by no man-no other man in the world...
...defense, independent oilmen argue that the essential economy of the industry makes it difficult for them to increase production. They declare that any production increase would only benefit major producers with big wells hooked into pipelines; small producers would still have to truck their oil to market at the high cost of 35? per bbl. Furthermore, independents fear that if they hike production to ease a short-term crisis in Europe, they will be stuck with a big surplus once the crisis is past. The problem could be solved easily, say the independents, if the big companies would divert their...
...resulted in Harvard students taking an "open book" exam, while their Radcliffe counterparts took the same exam without the benefit of outside aids...