Word: benefited
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...sing. Maggie, at 27 the eldest of the sisters, started writing songs at the age of eight. She and Terre performed them first in the family living room in Park Ridge, N.J., then later on the back of a flat-bed truck in nearby shopping centers for the benefit of a local politician and the glory of the Democratic Party. Terre, 26, the most voluble Roche, shipped off a couple of these campaign ditties to the White House for L.B.J. to use in his battle against Barry Goldwater; she also wrote a letter to the Pope, requesting instructions for achieving...
...bigger benefit of decontrol will come from increased domestic production. When prices are free to climb to the world level, domestic output is likely to rise as companies pump more oil out of existing wells that are now uneconomical to keep on stream. The battle between Carter and the oil industry over his windfall profits tax concerns whether decontrol will also lead to increased exploration and drilling of new wells that will raise production. The President has repeatedly hit the industry with the charge that oilmen will just pocket the profits from decontrol. Even under existing price controls, however...
Wirtz said the formula is too expensive and too vulnerable to contamination from bacteria-infested water supplies to benefit the Third World's poor...
...said he would not sign the Faculty letter because he is uncertain that corporate withdrawal from South Africa would benefit blacks in that country...
...went. The last two hundred pages document Ochs' rise to the post of "the Movement's poet revolutionary," and his fall through the long, long Nixon years. The only problem is that his rise was so pitifully short. Ochs had just about three years from his first major benefit at a Berkely anti-war teach-in in 1965 to the seemingly endless chain of disasters from Chicago onward before the movement slid away from...