Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Budget Director has proposed reductions in Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies veterans' benefits, civil service retirement programs and grants to states and localities for such purposes as education and urban development. A slew of programs and agencies-some of debatable value, some of remarkable worth-would be consigned to oblivion: the Job Corps, the Small Business Administration, the Export-Import Bank, subsidies to Amtrak. Also, the Reaganauts are considering a genuine freeze on cost of living increases in many benefit programs other than Social Security...
Naisbitt also pointed out a trend toward comparable worth in which people would receive equal pay for equally challenging jobs, a trend which would especially benefit women...
...Nuremberg Code on human experimentation (established after World War II in reaction to the ghastly Nazi experiments on prisoners) declares that for research to be ethical the subject must give consent. The person is violated if it is unwillingly-even if only uncomprehendingly-used for the benefit of others...
...anyone has spoken up to defend the Final Clubs during the hoo-rah over then relation to the College. I've missed it. Yet there is something to be said on their behalf. Let me argue the case simply for tolerance, though I also believe the Clubs bring positive benefit to the University...
...Toole, shameless and affecting as he just about tears a planet to tatters; and a hilarious wicked-witch turn by the delicious Dunaway. The climactic confrontation, in which man's fate is decided by two women, could elicit thrills of laughter from a Saturday-matinee benefit performance...