Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other diplomatic moves were afoot, though without benefit of Lyndon's left. At the U.N., Secretary-General U Thant was sounding out 14 nations-among them Red China and the Soviet Union-to determine whether another U.S. bombing pause would help pave the way to peace talks. In Moscow, United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that he too would help negotiate a cease-fire to halt "American aggression...
...found aura of presidential dignity, a blend of artless good humor and consummate professional skill. The impression was heightened by his birthday-week decision to wear plastic-rimmed spectacles, which make him look older, instead of the contact lenses with which he has previously disguised his hyperopia for the benefit of the TV audience. As he gazed at the "people eater," the combination close-up camera and teleprompter that all but obscures the President from his audience, he looked for all the world like a genial Foxy Grandpa...
...younger a child is when he starts getting fluoridated water, the better. If the child's mother drinks fluoridated water, the benefits begin as early as the time of conception. Some benefit will follow if he gets it at any time in childhood. And the benefit is lifelong...
Enlightened Generosity. The seemingly generous gesture will actually benefit U.S. Steel. Debenture interest payments are deductible from federal corporate income taxes, thus will really cost the company only about $15 million annually−$10 million less than it is currently paying in preferred stock dividends, which are distributed out of after-tax earnings. The benefits to the preferred stockholders and to the company and its common stockholders were immediately recognized on Wall Street, where by week's end U.S. Steel's preferred stock jumped $26 and its common stock $2 per share. What puzzled many on Wall Street...
Next it is Charlotte and her husband Pierre, an airplane pilot who has just flown in from Germany with a noted reporter. Pierre invites the fellow to the house. At dinner, Charlotte and Pierre go through domestic cliches for the newsman's benefit: the cute house, the nice neighborhood, the exceptional TV set. Afterwards everyone has a monologue−Pierre on the importance of memory, Charlotte on the importance of living in the present, the journalist on the importance of intelligence. Then Charlotte and Pierre go to bed and run through the predictably tedious anatomical rituals and the same...