Word: benefitted
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Although no parliamentary seats were at stake, the elections were seen as an important index of the national mood. The results surprised even those who had expected the Christian Democrats to benefit from a wave of sympathy after Moro's murder. The party won 42.5% of the vote (up from 39% in the 1976 general election), while the Communists took only 26.5% (down from 34%). Recouping their losses of two years ago, the Socialists came in with a respectable 13.5%. The centrist Republicans and Social Democrats also gained, while the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement and the far left...
Both sides benefit from this selling of America. For too long, international investment has been a one-way street, with the U.S. spending billions to set up plants and factories abroad. U.S. multinationals have spread prosperity around the globe, but they have also eliminated jobs for American workers at home, and this has increased pressure to block imports that further threaten American jobs. Now foreign investors are returning those jobs to the U.S., and that will make it more difficult for the U.S. to revert to nearsighted protectionism. Explains Economist Louis Wells of the Harvard Business School, an expert...
Fight B.I.G., urges Weidenbaum. Demand cost-benefit studies for all of B.I.G.'s inflationary, efficiency-sapping, unfair policies. "We need economic impact statements," says Weidenbaum. "Before Uncle Sam lectures the private sector about holding down inflation, he badly needs to get his own house in order...
...even have an allotted number of sick days each year like most of the other departments because they do not want them, since they only encourage workers to take days off, workers who have not missed a day of work in years. They would rather have some other benefit instead...
Thomas was prompted to switch his own vote to not guilty, arguing that the defendant must be given the benefit of the doubt. Back in the jury room, the majority for a conviction now shifted to a majority for acquittal, first 7 to 5, then 9 to 3. The following day, the eleventh day, Thomas announced that the jurors were hopelessly deadlocked, and Judge Turner declared a mistrial. This week Dr. Waddill, who is also being sued for $17 million by Mary Weaver, returns to court to learn whether he will be tried all over again. The jurors, however...