Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ways to release pent-up urges, began his six-hour recording session by conducting the orchestra in a spirited rendition of God Save the Queen. Then he turned the podium over to BBC Conductor Geoffrey Brand, who whipped the musicians into shape, stepping aside to allow Bowes the therapeutic benefit of conducting a few of the final takes. Total cost...
...increased U.S. purchases of Ivorian products. He was also casting about for increased U.S. capital investment in the Ivory Coast. From a U.S. viewpoint, the generous "tax holidays" the Ivory Coast is willing to grant in return for investments make the idea attractive. But there is an Ivorian benefit too: every new U.S. investor makes Houphouet-Boigny a little more independent of his French advisers...
Astonished Congressmen are beginning to realize that they have created what amounts to an open-end drain on the federal treasury, and are now considering passing economizing amendments. But the most difficult trick in Government is to take back a benefit once it has been granted...
...film being shown in moviehouses, which explains to citizens how to bau di (vote). Those who are not already on the electoral rolls are urged to register and to file complaints if their names are left off local voting lists. Citizens are told how to cast ballots; for the benefit of illiterates, candidates will be identified by such symbols as water buffaloes and lotus flowers. The narrator even offers advice on sizing up the more than 540 aspirants running for the 117-member assembly: "Let us question the candidates on what they have done for the country in the past...
...such contributions would be paid not to the candidate but to the state auditor, who would in turn redistribute them to the designated candidates .... It will be observed that this arrangement would allow public participation in campaign financing and allow a candidate with a genuinely wide following to benefit therefrom...