Word: benefitted
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Figueiredo's first big test will be the congressional elections next month; polls already indicate widespread protest support for the opposition MDB. In addition, as part of Geisel's political reforms, Figueiredo will be the first President to govern since 1968 without benefit of Institutional Act No. 5, which gave Brazil's chief executive the power to shut down an unruly congress and deprive citizens of their political rights. Thus the new Brazilian President could conceivably find himself facing a legislature controlled by the opposition-and, embarrassingly, Figueiredo would have no clear legal authority to do anything...
Keith Richards, on the other hand, is much better off. He pleaded guilty for heroin possession up in Canada last Tuesday, and got off with a year's probation and orders for the Stones to play a benefit for Canada'a blind people (I bet Canadian sales of dark glasses and canes triple). Some judge. As a friend of mine says, he showed a little "sympathy for the junkie." It's comforting to know that Canada is now the place to go not only to dodge the draft, but to do serious drugs...
...vast resources, a position in the state hierarchy and the personal prerequisites that attend well-placed public officials. Those facts are certainly straight. To refer to those privileges as a "fortune" was a serious rhetorical oversight on my part. Yet to ignore the fact that Moses' activities did, nonetheless, benefit himself--in terms of power and privilege if not money--and to assume that the unique role Mr. Moses played in New York State politics cannot be "dragged in" as relevant to the current election are errors approaching the same magnitude...
...Waving a dollar bill in front of audiences, Bell demands a return to a sound currency. Not to be outdone, Democratic Candidate Bill Bradley advocates a $25 billion federal income tax cut that will largely benefit people who earn less than $40,000 a year. At the same time, he reminds voters that the Federal Government has the responsibility to provide for basic human needs, such as health, education and employment. He also makes frequent reference to the time he was a star on the New York Knicks basketball team. "You know, I spent a lot of years running around...
Homeowners. Persons over 55 who for three of the past five years have lived in a house that is their principal residence will pay no taxes on the first $100,000 profit made from selling that house. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime benefit...