Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deregulation push has split the scheduled airlines into two warring camps. Certain carriers, notably United, whose fleet of 364 planes is the nation's largest, believe they could survive and benefit from the new competition that would come if Washington threw the airline business open to any and all who wanted to enter it. But most other lines, including Eastern, are bitterly opposed. Eastern's Borman believes opening up airline service to all comers would mean "wasteful capacity wars" that would benefit the largest, strongest carriers-like United-which could expand into new routes now denied them...
...Erotic Adventures of Casanova was the feature attraction at three southern California moviehouses on Aug. 22, according to the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,021,000), while Jail Bait was at eight more local theaters. The next day those cinematic classics were still packing them in, but without benefit of the Times. The paper had become the latest and largest U.S. daily to close its pages to display advertising for pornographic films...
...Federal Government this year will also spend about $13 billion on a bewildering variety of employment and training programs that will benefit an estimated 6 million people. Washington finances, among other things, 725,000 public service jobs in state and local governments, public works construction in depressed areas, and Job Corps residential training centers. Some programs are merely cosmetic; for example, the Administration's summer-job projects for 1.8 million kids are designed mainly to keep them off the streets during vacation...
...return for such services, the smaller bank compensates its big brother by putting an interest-free deposit in the larger bank. These deposits benefit the larger bank because it can lend out the money to its own loan customers without having to pay interest to get the funds. It is an extremely profitable business for larger banks, and competition for correspondent deposits is fierce...
Last week Walter J. McNerney, president of Blue Cross, announced that its 69 member-plans had agreed on a new program of cost containment for the benefit of their 84 million subscribers. What it amounts to is a kind of watchdogging on doctors and hospitals, with the threat of withheld insurance payments, and a carrot-and-stick incentive plan...