Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, largely because legislators are elected from districts based on the farm-heavy population ratios of 40 years ago. Reapportionment of state and congressional election districts has already begun to help balance the scales for the metropolis, but the suburbs, rather than the city, will get most of the benefit...
...That they did so well is remarkable; but, as importantly, we have been able to benefit from their mistakes...
...currency, which remains in the nations of origin. About 20% of the cash is earmarked for U.S. use, and part of this is absorbed by routine operations such as maintaining embassies and aid missions. The other 80%, though U.S.-owned, is reserved for the recipient nation's benefit...
...first time urged its 100,000 supporters to vote Socialist. Their votes could give the Socialists a majority in the 165-member Parliament (the Socialists now have 76 seats to the conservatives' 81), but in practice the People's Party is far more likely to benefit. Austrians are well aware of how much bluer the Danube is on their side of the Iron Curtain. Making the most of their fears, Klaus's campaign posters thunder about "the proof in black and white of the Red Volksfront menace." For good measure, some campaign managers have spread the news...
...Logically, this argument is strong," continued the judge. But logic "is a minion of the law, not its master." More important, such exemption aids "the general welfare, apart from any benefit that religious organizations derive from it." Many church activities bring "substantial benefit to the community, such as aid to the poor and aged, day nurseries, care of the sick, and efforts to eliminate racial inequalities. Programs such as these serve public needs; the performance of these functions by private agencies saves the state the expense of providing the same services...