Word: benefitting
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...Pittsburgh Manager Chuck Tanner made the Pirates vote. However, everyone eventually attached a rider requiring the accord of their union. It was not forthcoming. Acting Executive Director Donald Fehr called Ueberroth's appeal silly and suggested that the commissioner was out to make personal news, presumably to some political benefit. Ueberroth said that he was prompted by a number of major league players who actually applied to join the minor leaguers in a mandatory testing program now four months along. Whether there are enough to spur the union now is the question. Because by week's end Ueberroth's deadline...
Unhappily, the safest prediction is that no one is likely to focus soon on the one action that would do the most good: chopping the budget deficit. That would permit an effective dollar devaluation, which would benefit trade far more than any other conceivable legislation. But it would require cuts in Government spending going well beyond any that Congress is preparing to enact this fall, and probably tax increases as well. Moving to limit imports is so much easier, but so much more costly in the long...
...benefit to the shoe industry might amount to little more than a stay of execution. After five years of protection, there is no reason to believe that the American shoemakers would be any more able to fend off foreign competition. Says U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter: "That was the major strike that the footwear industry had against it. If the industry could have demonstrated that it was likely to be price competitive in the future, we may have had a different position...
...Americans still do not get enough exercise. The Public Health Service defines that as anything that boosts heart and lung performance to 60% or more of its capacity at least three times a week for a full 20 minutes, the minimum needed to produce any cardiovascular benefit. Five years ago, the service urged that by 1990, three- fifths of those 18 to 64 and half of those 65 and over should be meeting that minimum. Now it says that chances of reaching those goals are "poor." Newly published 1985 Gallup Leisure Audit figures found no significant change in the number...
...response, advocates say that SDI research, like the space program, will have spin-offs that benefit private industry. The knowledge gained through Apollo flights helped scientists develop a multitude of products, from miniature computer chips to the cordless Dustbuster vacuum cleaner. Says John Rittenhouse, executive vice president of the aerospace and defense division at RCA: "We're not banking on SDI reaching production. We're banking on the fallout to commercial and consumer areas for the payoff." Technology spawned by SDI could conceivably be used to build better communications equipment, air-traffic-control systems or industrial robots. High-speed computers...