Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even jaded judgments in favor of Clinton. Half believe the President is misleading them about Whitewater and Filegate, but many don't much care. More than half of Americans approve of Clinton's job performance. Unless he is directly implicated in wrongdoing, voters seem ready to give him the benefit of the doubt. They may not be fully comfortable with him so much as impressed by his ability to stay afloat...
According to program Chair Judith Block McLaughlin, the greatest benefit the seminar provides the new presidents is an important network of colleagues...
...some time during their lives, and an estimated third of those between the ages of 40 and 55 are struggling with it right now. But doctors can definitively diagnose the problem in only about 10% of cases. Curing the ache is even trickier. Surgery, for example, rarely provides significant benefit, according to a 1994 Federal Government report...
...deplorable that countless Third World children are being exploited in order to offer Americans consumer-quality goods at bargain prices [NATION, June 17]. We have to ask ourselves, Can we willingly sacrifice these children so we may benefit? Can we let ourselves be seduced by department-store sale signs, knowing that an inexpensive shirt, soccer ball, handbag or rug is making a child elsewhere pay a huge price? It is high time both companies and consumers here realize their double standard and start to change their attitude toward the Third World. KRISHNAN SRINIVASAN Coconut Creek, Florida...
...been killed by guns this year. The announcement seems conspicuously well-timed for his re-election campaign, notes TIME Washington correspondent James Carney: "Politics always plays a part in these announcements, which doesn't mean that this is bad policy, just that it's also for Clinton's political benefit." So between now and November, says Carney, Americans can expect more Clinton-proposed feel-good measures. Jenifer Mattos