Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to those changes which came fromHUCTW's contract, the dining hall workers' newcontract includes provisions for a committee tomonitor workloads and a weighted system of raisesdesigned to benefit lower-paid employees,according to Bozzotto...
...tribal blockades have been set up on the Limbang road, which is one of the main logging arteries in Sarawak. Construction of the road during the mid-1980s was partly financed with a 200 million yen ($842,000) low- interest loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency ostensibly to benefit the very people who are today fighting the logging traffic. Since JICA is not supposed to give funds to support Japanese commercial ventures abroad, the road has provided ammunition for those who argue that increased foreign aid by the Japanese will only further jeopardize the global environment. Kiyoshi Kato, director...
...sure the Soviets have enjoyed watching us do this to ourselves," muses a security officer involved with the case. In fact, the greatest benefit to the KGB from the whole affair may have been the spectacle of the U.S. Government tearing itself apart over what turned out to be a phantom...
State-sponsored gambling is nowhere near the bonanza for states it has been sold as. Illinois and Ohio, among other states, have reduced tax-paid financing of schools as the lottery cash came in. "So," says James Smith, superintendent of the Wolf Branch School in Belleville, Ill., "the real benefit is zero." Less than zero, actually. Smith complains that he cannot get a bond issue authorized because local officials think that schools are rolling in lottery money. Says Thomas Cummings, head of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling: "Before this thing is through, there will be a legal bookie...
...politicians are getting their message across with growing earnestness and skill. Declares Nader: "The '90s will make the '60s pale into insignificance in terms of the reform drive to clean up the fraud, waste, abuse and crimes of many corporations." Corporate responsibility will no longer be a fringe benefit but an integral part of doing business...