Word: benefited
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...sharply reduced official travel abroad. And no one would fault him for good intentions on the broader economic front: "We recognize the important role of private investment. To this end, the government is revising the legislation relating to incentives in order to assist private businessmen to establish projects of benefit to the economy...
...bought the building housing Le Pavilion. Soule kept right on seating Cohn in Siberia. Cohn raised the rent. Soule simply moved his restaurant, at a cost of some $400,000, out of the building. His impossibly high standards in the kitchen led to endless resignations, all to the ultimate benefit of gastronomes, for those who left today preside over many of Manhattan's best restaurants. He had become what all restaurateurs aspire to be-the perfect professional...
After unanimous Senate confirmation of Robert C. Weaver as Secretary of the new Housing and Urban Devel opment agency, the President swore in his first Negro Cabinet member in a grandiose East Room ceremony illuminated for TV's benefit by 27 spotlights. Johnson used a huge new electronic lectern with hidden microphones and retractable prompter screens that newsmen dubbed "Mother." (One correspondent asked if it could cook Lyndon's breakfast.) When Weaver had been duly anointed, Johnson produced a surprise by announcing that Lincoln Gordon, 52, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil since 1961, would succeed Peace Corps Director Vaughn...
Steelmaking Pont-à-Mousson has 75 factories and mines in France and 13 other countries, stands to benefit from the financial savvy and worldwide banking contacts of its new corporate relative. Suez, which operated the canal until Nasser seized it in 1956, has since become a broadly diversified investment company. Its widely invested capital (banks, insurance, industry) include the more than $80 million in indemnities paid by the Egyptians for the canal. Recently, Suez has gone in for more direct participation in manufacturing, and the tie-up with Pont-à-Mousson is the latest result. Should the two companies...
...biography of Lenin in each of these categories. Robert Payne created a mammoth animal, The Life and Death of Lenin, which is seductively readable, though not always reliable history. David Shub's Lenin is a plant whose roots are a bit shallow, since it was written without the benefit of recently discovered documentary material. Louis Fisher's book is definitely right, but it's just a middle-sized stone. Now Adam Ulam has written a boulder...