Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maneuver failed: the full Senate two weeks ago knocked the benefit for Unocal out of the mammoth tax bill prepared by the Senate Finance Committee. But the Unocal provision was one of only a handful of such goodies that bit the dust. Some 170 others were in the 1,489-page bill, and late last week Senators struggled to add more breaks for specific constituents by floor vote...
...principles of strict separation of powers and a disdain for far-reaching federal remedies for social problems. He has a peppery prose style and an acid pen: he once called the Freedom of Information Act "the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored." In a caustic critique of affirmative action, he facetiously proposed a system he dubbed "R.J.H.S.--the Restorative Justice Handicapping System," in which individuals would be awarded points based on their ethnic backgrounds to determine how much they owed society...
...creation of these universal regulations will benefit industry because it provides a firm set of guidelines that companies can use in their planning process, said Goldberg. "It clarifies the major concerns of regulatory agencies," he added...
...missile-defense shield that would render nuclear weapons obsolete. "It had already established itself as the most contentious issue on the Soviet-American agenda," says Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, who proposed a conference on the SDI controversy that would produce a "coherent, focused and expert debate for the benefit of correspondents and editors and, through a special report in the magazine, for TIME's readers." The conference, which took place in Washington on June 3, was the basis for this week's cover stories...
...conclude from these findings that industry is adding to the resources of the more productive faculty in universities, so that the universities benefit," said Blumenthal...