Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference of the China Writers' Association last January proclaimed the need for "creative freedom" and sanctioned the publication of "scar literature," the genre of harsh recollections of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. If greater truthfulness about national life in general is permitted to blossom, it will benefit not just the quality of literature but the entire body politic and will kindle a conscious--and unconscious--search among Chinese for the focus of their civilization...
Feldstein responded by reworking his data and including new changes in social security benefit payments which were enacted in 1972--a 20 percent increase in benefits and automatic indexing of benefits to inflation. Based on these changes, which according to Lesnoy and Leimer did not consider all of the effects to future benefits in the 1972 legislation, Feldstein's corrected data supported his original view that social security benefits reduce private savings...
...trouble. In a second, closer vote, the Senate agreed to advance farmers 50% of the price-support loans they normally get in the fall, after crops are harvested. An infuriated Pete Domenici of New Mexico, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called the second bill a "giveaway" that will benefit wealthy farmers as much as those on the edge of bankruptcy. Both Senate measures were passed as amendments to a $175 million African famine relief bill. Democrats in the House, in the meantime, easily passed separate legislation to provide the 50% advance on price-support loans plus $3 billion...
...Staff, who already filled out and returned her questionnaire to UHS, said she doubted whether the survey would be of much benefit. "If someone has a drinking problem statistics aren't going to matter much to them," she said...
While the Adams House Bost Race or the closing of Memorial Drive on Sundays marks the presence of spring for some. Lowell House residents has more of a crude awakening to the commencement of this season. Some Lowellians find that the only benefit to the six weeks in preparation for they opera is the shorter walk to the salad bar regardless of a table's location. The reward for patience with such claustrophobic dining, however, is a successful production of opera by New England's oldest continuing opera association...