Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bergland is sidestepping the parity issue. He argues that the new farm bill, signed into law in September, will benefit farmers more than they think. It raised price supports for corn from $1.75 per bu. to $2, and the target price of wheat from $2.47 to $3. Both programs distribute money to farmers when prices fall below certain levels. In November $1 billion in Government checks will begin going out to wheat growers for their summer crop. When that happens, Bergland believes, the farm heat may simmer down...
Long before then, the U.M.W. itself would be in trouble. Wildcatting has all but destroyed the union's pension and benefit funds, which get their money from employers on the basis of man-hours worked and tons mined. One of the largest, which provides $20 million monthly in pension checks to 81,500 miners, has used up its cash reserves entirely and now survives month-to-month on a combination of bank loans and new payments from the mine operators. If the whole union walked out, the fund would not be able to meet its obligations, and the other...
...ranks, with the likes of Sir Georg Solti. He is generous with his time and talent. Once he flew from New York to Los Angeles and back in one day to spend a few hours with a sick friend. He donates proceeds of some concerts to charity, eagerly gives benefit performances...
...this percentage remains unchanged. Similarly, blacks still make up only 3.4% of the nation's lawyers and only 1% of its engineers. And now that most organizations finally accept at least the idea of affirmative action, the limited gains have strengthened demands for outright quotas for the benefit of minorities. That is far more controversial, particularly among Jews, who remember the all too recent days of quotas that excluded them from graduate schools and top jobs...
...Graves initially had her doubts about whether Radcliffe would benefit from a woman coach...