Word: benefits
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Worrying Accent. The bill, said the President, would "benefit substantially every state of the union, every segment of the American economy." What made it necessary was that existing U.S. trade laws fail to "assure ready access for ourselves ... to a market nearly as large as our own"; in the five years of its existence, the Common Market has created a new economic community in many ways as vast and promising as the U.S. itself. Further, the plan would stimulate economic growth throughout the free world, and it would shore up the U.S. international financial position, weakened by years of defense...
...biggest free election in the world. Voting in most states will last a week beginning Feb. 18; returns from six snowbound constituencies in the north will not be in until April. Voters will use rubber stamps to make a cross after the candidate of their choice; for the benefit of illiterates, each candidate's party symbol has been marked on the ballot along with his name...
...beginning, the Digest carried no ads, largely to curry favor with its magazine sources, who did. But in 1954, after polling readers for permission, the Digest opened its U.S. edition to advertising, fielded orders for 1,107 pages within two weeks of the announcement. Last year, without benefit of liquor or tobacco ads, which it scorns in the U.S. edition, the Digest's gross ad revenue was $65 million. It also collected in excess of $60 million in circulation revenue. From time to time, the parent Digest has launched prosperous offspring, among them the Reader's Digest Condensed...
Fear of Tomatoes. The trouble started in December when Italian Tenor Ruggiero Bondino, 27, screeched out an unwritten high C in the first act of Traviata. "Bleater!" screamed the galleryites. "Go back and join your goatherd!" Later, for the benefit of Conductor Arturo Basile, they added: "Kill the conductor as well as the tenor!" Tenor Bondino beat a timorous retreat to his hotel under police escort. Early the next morning he fled back to Rome rather than face the en raged Parma gallery in other scheduled performances of Traviata. Soprano Rosanna Carteri, also appearing in Traviata, fainted from tension, wailed...
About one-quarter of the 16 million Americans over 65 already have some hospital-cost coverage through commercial insurance, and another third have it through Blue Cross. But no two Blue Cross plans are alike in premiums or benefits. What McNerney proposed was, "for the first time in history, a uniform set of benefits on a nationwide basis," for all people over 65 regardless of their state of health. Main benefit would be as many as 70 days' hospitalization a year. As with most present Blue Cross plans, subscribers would get nothing toward doctors' bills...