Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commission said the regulations are in the public interest, but opponents of the regulations argued that the regulations do little to benefit the public while harming the drivers...
Regardless of whether drivers benefit, hotel customers may not even be aware of the flat rate...
Which brings me to benefit number two. Because we need to get back to school for two weeks of reading period and two weeks of finals before our fall semester is complete, our vacation is truncated immediately after New Year's. You've barely put away the confetti and the champagne before you're packing up and heading back to school, a measly two weeks after leaving Harvard. Were we to have finals before winter break, we could have three weeks--at a minimum--of uninterrupted and stress-free vacation, enough days to unwind from finals, spend the requisite time...
...Benefit number three requires a little bit of foresight. As hard as it is to imagine now, come May the weather will be warm. And once again, while we are in finals, our friends at other, more considerate universities will be reveling in the first days of summer vacation. Although we do start later than those same friends, the lessons of simple economics help us understand that a few days at the end of the summer, when we are already satiated with relaxation, are worth significantly less than the same number of days at its beginning, when the very mention...
...move some 40 percent of the trust fund into the stock market, to allowing workers to invest some money for themselves. Although all three plans would seek to build up the trust fund by investing it differently, the differences in the approaches were considerable. The first, called the "maintain benefits" plan, would keep current benefits unchanged, would only slightly increase Social Security taxes and would investment about 40 percent of Social Security's funds in the stock market instead of putting all of it in Treasury bonds as is done now. A second plan, which would increase Social Security payroll...