Word: benefited
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...expenditures for government services are inevitable; most pinched will be those with lower incomes who are the most dependent on publicly financed programs and jobs. But, says Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank, "in the long run, the lower-income people will benefit if the cut does what I argue it will: namely, stimulate growth and development in California. It will lead to more jobs and higher standards of living...
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Gerald Ford, cites another benefit: "Because property taxes are a component of the consumer price index, and because California property taxes are such a large portion of the national total, the proposition will cut the index by .2% in December-say, from an inflation rate...
...Their taxes for 1977 totaled $48,152.12 on a taxable income of $121,826.98, after deductions, primarily for the trust's losses and charities. Their contributions amounted to $38,551, including $25,000 to the Carter Foundation for Government Affairs, Inc., which eventually will benefit students of political science, and $6,000 to the U.S. Treasury-the amount Carter promised last year to donate as a token payment for 1976, when he owed no federal taxes...
...students delivered their set pieces for the benefit of their visitor. "I am an eternal lover of peace," proclaimed Victor Álvarez, a fourth-year economics major. "But as a human being I cannot aspire to live in peace while there are people throughout the world who do not have that privilege. Therefore I stand ready to fulfill my moral commitment to extend internationalist aid to any underdeveloped country that may need it and request...
...Salmon, is that it can help the physician plan individual courses of treatment. For example, only 20% of people with cancer of the colon or rectum respond to the drug fluorouracil; the other 80% suffer needlessly from the drug's toxic effects. The new technique may have another benefit: it could be used to evaluate new anticancer drugs without endangering cancer patients...