Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed contract with Eastern, National, Northwest, Trans World and United Airlines called for benefit and wage increases that were estimated by sources close to the Administration at 4.3 per cent a year...
...ammunition sold in the U.S. each year is shot up by skeet-and trapshooters, rifle-match enthusiasts and wood-lot plinkers-gunmen no more bloodthirsty than golfers or bowlers. Yet that does not detract from the main point: U.S. gun laws are an ineffective muddle, and the nation would benefit from stricter enforcement of existing laws and sterner controls to keep arms out of irresponsible hands...
...raft ride down the Rio Grande last spring. She persuaded park rangers to abandon their headquarters so that it could serve as a pressroom. She checked the river to make sure that there was enough water for rafting, placed privies at strategic sand bars along the route. For the benefit of anxious photographers, she launched the expedition under a full moon. And she exhorted the reporters: "The management of this trip is not responsible if these elaborate procedures fail to work. In that case, don't blame us. Just put the copy in a bottle and float it down...
Profit from the performance will go to the Church's rennovation fund. Tickets are available at the door at $5, $8, $10. "We tought he did these concerts as a benefit," the pastor said. But we found out that he doesn...
...thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down--and you're just the man to do it--d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes. I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake...