Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Munich beer cellars. He pocketed $1 billion when in 1976 he sold to a German bank 29% of the stock of Daimler-Benz, which makes Mercedes cars. Under West Germany's tax code, Flick has to spend all of that sum by Dec. 31 in ways that will "benefit the national economy"-or else pay 50% in capital gains and income taxes...
...brief life." Nolen believes that Ede lin was guilty of manslaughter. But he admits that he could not have voted to convict. There was, he insists, reasonable doubt as to the baby's ever having been alive outside the uterus, and the doctor should have been given the benefit of this doubt. Says Nolen: "I would have voted to acquit Edelin, even though I think he was guilty...
...find it very aggravating when a person grabs my wheelchair and starts pushing without first asking whether or not I need assistance. He does not realize that whatever brief benefit I might gain in terms of saving time or energy is quickly negated by less conspicuous effects: loss of a sense of independence and self-esteem. Because the disabled might do things more slowly or in a different way than able-bodied people does not mean that we cannot do them well or that we require help. On the contrary, some of us take a great deal of pride...
Economic violence was the quieter accompaniment to the obvious political repression: the colony's economy was structured to benefit the Belgians, and the Belgians alone. When the Congo gained independence, social security payments in Belgium dropped 40 per cent--an indication of the importance of the huge African country for its colonial masters. The rich copper mines in Shaba, then Katanga, were owned by a Belgian state monopoly. The Belgians had hoped to continue their economic control even when political power had passed into African hands...
Legislative microphilia ranges well beyond an obsession with official totems and artifacts. One classic manifestation occurred this season in Colorado, where legislators climaxed their session with a mighty struggle over the apostrophe in Pike's Peak: for the benefit of constituents who had never come to terms with grammar, they outlawed the apostrophe. In Alabama, legislators reached the session's final day without action on a single major bill-but not without having played, once again, their recurring conflict with the capital city government over parking space for their cars. Idaho lawmakers, for their part, indulged...