Word: benefited
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...Wait a minute," Tiny Kim rasps, looking frantically around the room, "You mean there's no Santa at the top of the corporate hierarchy? No eternal spirit of altruism and self-sacrifice for the benefit of little children everywhere...
...possibility that Harold J. Nicholson spied for the Russians while working for the Central Intelligence Agency [NATION, Dec. 2] only re-emphasizes the continuing folly of the CIA. In my 63 years, I cannot recall one instance in which this spy foolishness has proved to be of measurable benefit to the U.S. Want to seriously cut the budget? Then abolish the agency. The world's free press is far more accurate and timely. DICK CATLIN Woodstock, Vermont
...uniquely fast-and-loose municipal traditions. A Miami Herald investigation found that in the midst of its current fiscal crisis, the city is still leasing out a good chunk of its $600 million in property to politically connected businesses at well below market rents. Among those who benefit: the Municipios Trust Fund Corp., a group of prominent Cubans who got a $1-a-year, 20-year lease on city-owned property to build a clubhouse and community center. "The politicians here just give land away to their friends," says Pan Courtelis, a businessman and a leader of the petition drive...
...Clinton Administration and congressional powers, however, the news from the commission seemed too true to be good. Changing the way inflation is measured would mean telling Social Security pensioners and veterans that their benefit checks won't rise as fast as they have expected. And telling some millions of union workers that their future pay raises may be smaller. And telling some 160 million taxpayers they will eventually have to hand over more to the Internal Revenue Service. Even telling members of the First Wives Club that their alimony and child-support payments will increase less rapidly...
...BILL GATES The Microsoft mogul gave $15 million to Harvard University, where he dropped out. This is part of a joint $25 million gift with Microsoft executive vice president Steve Ballmer--a Harvard graduate--to benefit research and teaching in computer science and electrical engineering. Of this, $20 million will be used to construct a research and teaching facility named after the donors' mothers. The remaining $5 million will endow a professorship. Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates, also gave $12 million to the University of Washington to help pay for a proposed $52 million law school building that...