Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Congress passed the federal law forbidding employers to set a mandatory retirement age, it gave universities a seven-year exemption so that they could readjust their benefit plans and insure that they could maintain a high quality staff...
...ranking savings and loan executive. So goes the industry's scuttlebutt these days about Robert Bass's takeover in December of the crippled American Savings & Loan of Stockton, Calif. In one of the sweetest deals ever bankrolled with taxpayer money, the intensely private Fort Worth billionaire, 40, stands to benefit hugely from a decade of regulatory laxity. His purchase of American Savings is the pre-eminent episode in a string of controversial bailouts last year in which regulators handed out gilt-edged gratuities to some of America's richest...
...reconsider relations with its old antagonist. "Essentially what he stresses is that he wants to work constructively with us," says a State Department official. "We'll remain a bit skeptical until we see what policies he works up. But right now we're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt...
...rumors that Brown had a drug problem began to surface. He was arrested last summer for possession of PCP (he claimed his wife had planted the drug on him), illegally carrying a firearm and resisting arrest. He was given a $1,200 fine and ordered to stage a benefit concert for abused children. In September, Brown stormed into an insurance company next door to his office, waving a gun and complaining that strangers were using his bathroom. When the police arrived, Brown sped away in his pickup truck, touching off a high-speed chase through Georgia and South Carolina that...
...Cambridge are regulated. As has happened in many other cities, many rent-controlled apartments in the Cambridge area have gone, not to those who needed them the most, but to those who could most easily afford them. Such abuses have forced many low-income families, those that would otherwise benefit from rent control, out on the streets...