Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country. To be in possession of this instrument is an even greater challenge to the free community in which we live. I am confident that, whatever the scientists are able to discover or invent, the people will be good enough and wise enough to control it for the ultimate benefit of everyone...
Delay & Deal. Like Senator Malone, most politicians in Indiana feel all right about this process. But if they are at odds with the state administration, they feel just terrible about who is getting the benefit. When Jenner & Co. saw that more toll roads projected for the future would give the Craig organization a potent long-range weapon, they decided to set up some roadblocks...
...first free and universal presidential election, with the party's candidate, Novelist (Doña Barbara) Rómulo Gallegos, winning three to one. Most important, A.D. worked out and ratified the historic 50-50 contract with the oil companies-the golden rule that was later to benefit no one more than the officer Betancourt assigned as army chief of staff: Marcos...
...that can be-or should be-confined to the legal profession. Judge Vanderbilt candidly says that "where cures have occurred, they have generally been effected under the impetus of a popular revolt of laymen against the quaint professional notion that the courts exist primarily for the benefit of judges and lawyers and only incidentally for the benefit of the litigants and the state." Against the members of the bar and the bench who stand in the way of reform, Vanderbilt issues a scathing indictment: "I am convinced that the criminals, the gangsters, the corrupt local officials, the Communistic subversives...
Keeping Up Appearances. The foreign audience that Molotov was probably most interested in satisfying was in Peking. Like any foreign minister, he found it harder to reassure an ally than to fulminate against an antagonist. For the benefit of the high-riding comrades in Peking, Molotov effusively corrected himself after referring to the camp of world Communism "headed by the U.S.S.R.-more correctly said, headed by the Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic." He had liberal praise for Red China's friendship and aims, denunciation for the "criminal gang of Chiang Kai-shek that was expelled...