Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week-long trial was conducted in the Law School's Ames courtroom for the benefit or law students and community members under an unusual arrangement between Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49 and Suffolk Superior Court Chief Justice Thomas R. Morse...
Moreover, students individually would benefit from change to a more random assignment process. Students arguing for the present system say that if 70 percent of students get their first choice then 70 percent of the student body must be happy. I remain unconvinced that all students in their first choice house--not to mention the other 30 percent--are extremely satisfied. Many are content, but they rightly believe that something is missing from their House environment...
...addition, students found to have been victimized by harassment can benefit from a variety of corrective measures. According to the handbook, grievance officers can arrange for students to change courses and instructors...
...simple way to reduce the future growth of Social Security benefits would be to modify the annual cost of living adjustment, restricting the automatic increase to the excess of inflation over 3%. Such a 3% threshold on the COLA would mean that benefits would rise by 1% if the inflation rate were 4%, by 2% if the rate were 5% and so forth. This would slow the growth of total benefits without denying anyone a Social Security benefit and without reducing the size of any retiree's monthly check...
Although each retiree would experience only a small reduction in the increase of monthly benefits, the cumulative effect on total benefit outlays would be very substantial. A 3% indexing threshold would reduce 1989 Social Security outlays by about $35 billion. And if the same principle for limiting indexing were extended to all other Federal Government retirement programs, the savings would rise to $50 billion a year...