Word: benefiter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...subsequently dumped shares, causing the stock to plunge 11%, its worst one-day drop since last March. "The reaction [to Alcoa's miss] is a reflection of what's to come," says Cass. "Welcome to 2010, where scrutiny and reckoning and ramifications are in vogue and giving people the benefit of the doubt is very last year...
Winters said he thought that the decision to fill the seat by special election rather than leaving it vacant until the fall would benefit Flaherty, who has run for the seat before and garnered name recognition throughout the Middlesex, Suffolk, and Essex district—which includes parts of Cambridge, Boston, Chelsea, Everett, Revere, Saugus, and Somerville. The Boston Globe endorsed Flaherty...
Nobody would accuse Rick Garson of thinking small. The Las Vegas-based music producer is planning a benefit concert in Beijing on April 17 that will rival - and possibly exceed - such celebrity-spangled extravaganzas as Live Aid and Live 8. The ebullient Garson is well aware that China has what might politely be described as a mixed record when it comes to public performances by foreign artists; 2009 alone featured a trail of government last-minute cancellations. Notable among them was the nixing of Oasis concerts in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, reportedly because of one band member's attendance...
...Courtney contends that swallowing this tax would be even more difficult for many House Democrats than abandoning the public option, which would have provided a new government-run alternative for covering the uninsured. That is because it would require tens of millions of Americans to give up a benefit they now enjoy - tax-free treatment of their health benefits...
...human society, evolutionary biologists are stumped as to what selective pressure would have led us to punish people who have cheated or harmed not the person who does the punishing but a third party - even if that party is not a genetic relation. Some biologists suggest that punishers benefit from a boost in social status and are thus more attractive as mates...