Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressed a button, he cheerfully reported absence of pain after 15 or 20 minutes. If he kept the current on for 45 minutes to an hour, the pain relief lasted as long as six to eight hours and gave him a night of uninterrupted, pain-free sleep - an invaluable benefit. During the last six weeks of his life he used only a little codeine and relied heavily on his pain...
When he kept it on for long periods, his family noticed that his speech was slurred, he seemed a trifle tipsy and unduly gay. The patient himself said that a jolt of current left him feeling as though he had downed two martinis - with (he added benefit of immeasurably greater pain relief...
Last March, as Thayer pointed out, the publishers gave the International Typographical Union virtual veto rights over any new machines. The move promised little in the way of future benefit, but it added to present trouble. Now the Guild insists that its very survival demands the same power. Otherwise, it says, jobs that it now controls may drift into I.T.U. jurisdiction. And when it isn't fighting over automation, the Guild, which might be expected to encourage modernizing, is squabbling with the Times over pensions and job security for members who might lose work if other New York papers...
Judge Edward Weinfield, who has a reputation for toughness, said that he had been inclined to jail the two men, but was deterred by their "past exemplary records." Said he: "Bread cast upon the waters is returning to the benefit of each defendant." The benefit took the form of fines, which were ap portioned to each executive's ability to pay. Stephens earns $175,000 annually, and last year his company also set aside for him a "deferred reward" of 1,209 shares of J. & L. stock - now worth $77,500 - which he will collect when he retires...
Farmer also urged civil rights groups to work for "educational upgrading in the Negro community." Endorsing student busing he said, "In rural areas we bus students all over counties to central schools for the sake of quality education. We must do it in cities too for the benefit of both races. Both white and Negro children in segregated schools are not being prepared to cope with our small world...