Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ford's proposal would allow anyone who pays tuition for a college student to claim a credit on his income tax. But the maximum allowance of $325 would not help any student's family very much, and poorer families with a small tax payment would receive almost no benefit. "Tax credit" is a difficult phrase to resist, though, and only sustained opposition from the Johnson Administration killed it in the House last year...
...Republicans have their way, the tax credit would supersede the current network of federal grants and loans to students. The credit plan would have a special appeal if campus disruptions continue because the benefit would go directly to parents, who are also the taxpayers and voters, rather than to students or college financial aid offices...
...plans for overseas development since George Marshall delivered his Marshall Plan speech at Harvard in 1947. Not only does McNamara want to double the bank's lending capacity, but he also intends to spread the loans in new directions. More should go, he said, to projects that directly benefit ordinary people in poorer nations. Instead of concentrating on Asian development, the bank should increase its help to emerging nations in Latin America and Africa...
...SPEAKER also said Greece will benefit from its years of military control. One of the few who were cheering shouted, "You can let the Army run Greece for a hundred years--and that wouldn't be too long." No one doubts that the Army will want to control Greece for a considerable time to come...
...that?" asked one bored spectator. Answered another: "Only Senator Javits." With all the glamour around, there was no reason for a mere political pooh-bah to titillate the thousands who assembled outside Broadway's Criterion Theater for the benefit premiere of Funny Girl, the movie musical of the life of Fanny Brice. George Segal showed up in a double-breasted Nehru jacket, Rod Steiger in a black shirt with gold medallion, and Leading Man Omar Sharif in an old-fashioned tuxedo with wide peaked lapels. But all oohs and ahs were for the star of the spectacle, Brooklyn...