Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vice President. (If elected to both offices, he will resign his Senate seat.) He may spend as much as $10 million promoting his senatorial candidacy. That sum will not count against the legal limits on presidential campaign spending, but inevitably Dukakis will get at least some indirect benefit from his running mate's well-financed self-promotion...
...been in her recent novels. Yet Breathing Lessons fits naturally into the landscape of her work. Some readers may be reminded of The Big Chill or even of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Not quite. Rather, < Tyler pays tribute to ordinariness the hard way: without benefit of her usual whimsy and antic inventiveness. Every page says, about as well as it can be said, that what you are reading about may not be wonderful, but it is life...
...requires perseverance: the lotion must be applied twice a day for four to six months just to see if it will work. Cost: up to $400. Says Stern: "The chances of substantial results are only one in five, a large investment for a reasonably low chance of real cosmetic benefit." Moreover, if the applications are discontinued, the new hair disappears within a few months and balding continues at its previous pace. Says New York Dermatologist Stephen Kurtin: "The biggest resistance to minoxidil is not that the results may be only fair, but that it is a lifetime commitment...
...sting of last October's Wall Street crash. For the six months ended last March, the company's profits nosedived to $713 million, a 23% decline from the same period a year earlier. But that was more than 300% higher than the 1985 figure, and Nomura continues to benefit from the unprecedented boom in the Tokyo stock market...
...These are my hills," a Coal Valley News editorialist wrote more than 30 years ago. His words are no less pertinent today: "I do not hold title to the lands, but I reap every benefit and every injury to them. Believe it or not, you and I are the guardians of these hills. They are God's hills and we are the keepers. More than that, we shall inherit the manifold blessings of the hills. They are our hills...