Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Economists do not like to contemplate the future of the welfare benefit system without full employment. Even without increased unemployment benefits the social security fund does not balance, and must be subsidized from other taxation. As it is, the government takes a whopping 7½% from everybody's pay packet to finance the welfare state; as the number of unemployed rises, there will be correspondingly fewer to contribute-and therefore higher charges for everyone else...
...exhibit case is devoted to publications of the prolific and wide-ranging writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Only last April, Hughes gave a program of poetry and reminiscences here as a benefit for the Museum; and, sadly, this proved to be his last public appearance before his untimely death...
...Public Health Service puts it, that "the lower the tar and nicotine content, the lower the general health danger." But what disturbed critics of Columbia's sweeping announcement (Columbia's press release called the filter "a development of far-reaching importance, which promises to benefit mankind") is the fact that tar and nicotine are not the only dangerous elements in cigarettes. Just the day before Strickman's filter was announced, HEW Secretary John Gardner told Congress that one-third of all deaths among American men aged 35 to 60 are hastened by cigarette smoking. Quite apart from...
...close to being a joke. Boisterous pedestrians, revved engines, and low-flying jets are heard in profusion. All have a perverse way of intruding into the music at precisely the "wrong moments"--as if any moment would not be the wrong moment! Last night's audience even had the benefit of hearing an automobile horn anticipate the solo violin by sounding precisely the same "A" with which it was to enter a few second later...
China feels that she was once the best nation on earth according to Fairbank, and that much of her former self-pride has been taken away from her. "If we could put on a 'You're the greatest' act for China's benefit, it might be theraputic," he speculated...