Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although only a fraction participate, potentially about 450 mental patients could benefit through the summer program, LaMonte said. The Committee encourages volunteers to utilize whatever special skills they have in dealing with individual patients. "We do not try to fit volunteers into a definite structure," he said...
...fluid markets. A University of Washington graduate ('40), he worked for a number of small companies (everything from moth cakes to perfume), directed the TV ad campaign that made Stopette the best-selling deodorant of the early 1950s. Unhappy to see someone else get most of the benefit, he borrowed $488,000 in 1955 to buy Alberto-Culver and promptly dropped 24 of its 25 small-selling products to concentrate on VO5 hairdressing, began adding a line of new hairsets, rinses and shampoos...
...Communist company makes a sale to a Soviet-bloc customer, Narodny will pay the exporter at once, saving him the usual three-to six-month wait before collecting. For Narodny's services, the exporter pays a commission of 3% to 4% of the bill, so that the Soviets benefit doubly from the transaction...
Topsy-Turvy Recollections. Ved Mehta's approach is refreshingly direct. Although he has been blind since the age of three, he courageously taught himself to navigate the world without benefit of cane or canine, studied at Pomona College and Oxford. Stopping off in London recently, and finding philosophers bickering and historians snicker-sneering at each other from behind the learned journals, he resolved to talk to them all and see what the fuss was about...
...SHOT LUNCH. Busmessmen are supposed to show "more than a general expectation of a direct business benefit" from entertaining a prospect, but the payoff need not come immediately. Caplin stressed that a prospect can be wined and dined on the 100-to-l chance that a contract might follow...