Word: benefited
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...SOCIAL SECURITY. Some 20 million social-security recipients would get increases of at least 7% in retirement pensions, retroactive to last Jan. 1. Minimum monthly payments would go up $4 to $44, maximum payments $8.90 to $135.90. Eventually the maximum benefit would reach $168. Other changes: to cover their college years, some 40,000 children of deceased, retired or disabled workers would receive social-security benefits up to the age of 22 instead of 18; some 355,000 people aged 72 or over who are not now covered by social security would be given benefits...
...provisions for a common market in farm produce be completed in time to take effect in mid-1967, a full 21 years ahead of the Rome Treaty's schedule. De Gaulle counseled haste with good reason: as the lowest-cost producer of the Six, France stands to benefit the most from free farm trade within the community, and from farm exports outside the Common Market as well. For this reason, De Gaulle has used every brutal lever at his command, including a threat to quit the E.E.C., to force upon his Common Market partners agreements so far covering three...
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN James McDivitt, DOCTOR OF ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCE. By simple personal worth without benefit of heraldry, special privilege or urgent self-seeking, he rose quietly from among us to his present eminence...
...Benefit & Bane. Even more dramatic are the contributions fungi have made to science and medicine. Yeasts' high content of vitamins makes them effective against beriberi and pellagra. Ergot, derived from fungus-infected grain, speeds labor in childbirth, helps control bleeding. A common red bread mold has vastly facilitated research on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which governs heredity and holds the secret of life...
Edwards and Carter quickly got into a fuss over when Edwards should give up the 18-room, three-story presidential mansion-a key fringe benefit to augment the post's $16,000 salary. One morning, Edwards was reading on his patio when the caretaker discovered that the water had been shut off-on Carter's orders, it developed. Electricity and heat also faded. Edwards' 17-year-old daughter had to dress at a neighbor's house for her high school graduation. Edwards called the cutoff "an outrage." Carter called Edwards "rude and obstinate." Furious, students hanged...