Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buddhist monks, who have the growing support of the country's vast Buddhist majority, Roman Catholic Diem may finally have shattered his own political usefulness. He also opened up the possibilities of coups, countercoups, and even civil war-from all of which only the Communist Viet Cong could benefit...
...provide spiritual solace for the colonial conquerors. One of the earliest recorded appearances of English ways of worship overseas, in August 1578, was on solitary Baffin Island, where one Master Wolfall "preached a godly sermon, which being ended, he celebrated also a Communion upon the land" for the sole benefit of Explorer Martin Frobisher and his crew. The Anglican chaplains of the East India Company were interested in ministering only to Englishmen abroad; in the 17th century, apparently, just one Hindu was baptized...
...reasoning which compelled Morse and his colleagues to oppose the Telstar bill makes as much sense today as it did a year ago. A.T.&T. was given control over a potentially lucrative communications network. It received, absolutely free, the benefit of billions of dollars worth of scientific research paid for by the taxpayers. In addition, the granting of Telstar to a private corporation created a dubious international situation. Every other big country in the world has a communications monopoly owned by the state; the governments of these countries, if they want to use the facilities of the Communications Satellite Corporation...
...amendment to the Administration's current space authorization bill designed to prevent A.T.&T. from using government-financed research without paying for it. The amendment, of course, was defeated. Instead, the Senate passed a meaningless amendment forbidding the National Aeronautics and Space Agency to provide services for the exclusive benefit of private companies. The behavior of both the Senate and the Administration on this matter has been thoroughly disgraceful...
...Clinton P. Anderson (D.N.M.), floor leader for the bill, offered a substitute amendment which was passed, 62-11. Anderson's amendment, a restatement of Administration policy, forbids the space agency to provide services "for the exclusive benefit" of non-governmental agencies except when given on a reimbursable basis...