Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state that despite its excellent advanced program, Andover can only squeeze 43% of its students into the "Big Three." Andover is not attempting such squeezing at all. The dean has made great attempts to put students into schools where they will derive the greatest benefit. Two of our Merit Scholarship winners, certainly outstanding students, chose from the 44 other colleges, because they believed they could derive more from them. A big-name school, as you report, is by no means an assurance of the best education, even for a good student...
...Fringe Benefit. In St. Paul, the Minnesota Industrial Commission handed down the ruling that Elma Sweet, 62, was just as much on the job when she slipped on an icy walk during a coffee break as any "employee who is allowed to smoke or blow his nose...
...Egyptian men, marriage has long been a most enjoyable custom. By tradition, any Moslem husband tired of his bride had simply to say thrice, "I divorce thee," and the marriage was over and done with. And there was a special added, non-Islamic benefit. If the wife left him and went home to mother, and her husband still wanted her, he had simply to appeal to the courts, and the judge would obligingly sentence her to the Bait al-Taah, the House of Obedience. Under this dread practice, the police would arrest the woman wherever they found...
Though most specialists agree that something should be done for their own peace of mind and also the patients' benefit, they have few constructive suggestions. More characteristic is the despairing plaint: "Who's to start working up the 'God only knows' diagnosis?" To that, neither confused specialist nor confused patient had an answer...
...only does the lie-detector test benefit the boss, but it is also a boon to the employee, says Devine. When a frozen-food distributor called in Devine to find out who was pilfering $1,000 worth of food each month, the losses stopped immediately. Result: management gave raises, boosted starting pay $10 a week. In another case when $42 in cash disappeared from a service station, the three attendants voluntarily asked Devine for a lie-detector test. Devine said they were honest, sent them back to the job. A few days later a customer returned the money, saying...