Word: benefited
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...Newark, Workmen's Compensation Court Judge Kathryn G. Sugrue ruled that the New Jersey Turnpike Authority derived "a certain amount of benefit" from Maintenance Man Richard Marshall's services as a player on the Authority's softball team. Judge Sugrue awarded Marshall's widow and four children $38,130.04 in compensation for the fatal "on-the-job" heart attack he suffered while giving his all for his turnpike employers in a softball game last summer...
...have come from the University, however. Wiggins said in his letter to Curry that "preliminary investigation indicates that there are no engineering problems involved, and informal talks with various Cambridge City department heads lead us to believe that this plan, if carried out, would be of the greatest benefit to the City...
Touring Europe last week, Columnist Joe Alsop complained that U.S. newspapers were giving aid and comfort to this kind of anti-Americanism abroad at a time when the "motives and aims of the Government's action must be given the benefit of the doubt." Said Alsop...
...great irony of the New Boston is that those who will benefit the least are also those who must suffer the most. Urban Renewal promises to repeat a process that has happened before--uprooting the poor and then failing to provide adequate housing for them, leaving them either to form new slums in the outlying regions or aggravate condition in already existing ones. The General Plan calls for the construction of 34,000 new housing units by 1975. According to the most conservative estimates, 25,000 to 30,000 families (over 100,000 people) will be displaced before...
...course, the General Plan additionally calls for the rehabilitation of some 32,000 units, but here again the poor will benefit least. Rehabilitation consists of encouraging people to improve their own houses with the aid of bank loans insured by the Federal Housing Authority and, thanks to 1964 legislation, some direct federal loans. The process itself is lengthy. As one observer said, "The FHA places each request in a bureaucratic labyrinth so involved that approval come only after endless delay." Despite much local prodding, banks and, to a lesser extent, the government still remain reluctant to grant loans...