Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as providing every conceivable benefit for the workers of America, organized labor has exceeded its usefulness by sponsoring strikes and creating problems in labor-management relations without regard for national security or the ravages of inflation. Indeed, "organized labor is in trouble." It deserves all the trouble it gets...
...Adam Smith, as familiar as the United States-the world's largest common market. It aims at free trade within the largest possible area, enabling industries to cut costs, labor to specialize, capital to move freely where needed in a mass market-to the economic benefit of producer, worker and consumer. But set against Europe's age-old rivalries and stubborn economic nationalism, in which trade barriers used to be as fanatically guarded as national borders, the Common Market is an astonishingly uncommon development...
...accredited college, and be presently teaching mathematics or the sciences in a public or private secondary school. The candidate must have a minimum of three years' teaching experience in these fields. A limited number of college teachers who the Executive Committee of the Academic Year Institute feels would benefit from the program are also accepted. A candidate is not allowed to attend more than one Institute...
...benefit of a London newsman bemused by U.S. argot, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 38, set out to distinguish between hipsters and beatniks. Although the two groups "share a common experience and understand each other's language." pontificated Mailer, "they're utterly different. The hipster is a man of action, always on the move; the beatnik is contemplative, an amateur philosopher. Among world figures today, Kennedy is hip but won't admit it and Khrushchev is hip but doesn't know it." What about British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan? "Irreclaimably square...
...brudder Shel . . ."). Fortified with whisky, sherry, hock, Volnay and brandy, Peacock resorts at last to his only trick-demonstrating the "stage fall" that his brother had taught him. At the end of the party, his audience gone, Peacock falls flat a few more times for the benefit of Queen Victoria-whose portrait stares disapprovingly at him from the wall. But when he attempts a bow, it occurs to him that this was a trick "Shel had never taught him. Indeed, at the first attempt the floor came up and hit him in the face...