Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...costs. Thanks in part to automation and lower inflation, the Postal Service said it expects to report a $400 million profit for the fiscal year ending in September, compared with a net loss of $251 million in the previous twelve months. Consumers can look forward to one very tangible benefit: the current 22 cents cost of mailing a letter, in place since last year, is not expected to change until at least...
With this change, all students could benefit from the service and an operator would not tell students at two in the morning that they have to walk home alone because they do not have the right address...
...also obviate the need for transplants for patients whose hearts are weak but not completely failing. Implanting such a pumping chamber would be simpler and cheaper than performing a heart transplant, and since the borrowed muscle is the individual's own, it would not be rejected. Patients might even benefit psychologically, notes Stephenson, from knowing that their body has helped heal itself...
...current of humankind in which the only constant was change. But, of course, he was too much the dreamer. His friend James Madison brought him down to earth, pointing out that generations were not mere tidy mathematical certainties and that debts, like those incurred for the American Revolution, could benefit those who were to come. As always, Jefferson acknowledged the wisdom of Madison's view, but he could never rid himself of the feeling that unrestrained debt was as great an enemy of "natural rights" as King George...
...ensure that she did not become obese. Told that the strict regimen was stunting the toddler's growth, they were surprised. Says Pugliese, a pediatric endocrinologist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.: "They really felt they were doing what was right for the child's long-term benefit...