Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Urbanologists have differing ideas about which Great Society programs most benefit slum dwellers, but all admit ruefully that they have little concrete evidence to back them up. Partly because administrators have been extremely sensitive to criticism, partly because of political pressure for instant successes, "none of the programs have really been evaluated," says William Garrison, head of Northwestern University's Transportation Center...
...attempts to pry money out of a parsimonious Congress by claiming that it is already spending vast sums in the cities-when in fact it is not. Worse still, it has unrealistically raised the expectations of the poor, most of whom have yet to see much real benefit from Uncle Lyndon's 30 billion green bills...
...press conference, Thieu and Ky went further to deny sabotage. In a letter to the candidates, they pointed out that each slate was given $45,000 for campaign travel and literature. The law requires no more. Use of government planes and cars, the letter said, is a fringe benefit supplied out of government "good will." Wryly the letter concluded: "In the DMZ area there are not as many conveniences as in rear areas. If conditions are not as expected, you are requested please not to consider these little things as important...
...Civil Rights Movement should now make the cost-benefit analysis of riot, before it embarks on a campaign which will irrepairably rend the fabric of American life along racial lines. The possible benefits which riots produce for the Movement are the following...
...semi-finished goods imported and only finished in Soviet factories. The Washington economists also point out that to boost the statistics this year the Kremlin is concentrating on completing plants already started - and getting them into production - rather than on new factories to redound to the economy's benefit later...