Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Aaron Medlock, executive director of the New England Anti-Vivesectionist Society. "We feel a great deal for Baby Fae because she was used, just as the sacrificed baboon, as an animal in an experiment. The public just doesn't understand that the operation did not take place for the benefit of Baby Fae, but for the benefit of researchers...
Yang points out such similiarities to American newspapers as the Chinese equivalent to letters to the editor, a page entitled "the readers' letter box." She said that people--both readers and reporters--criticize the government in order to provide help and benefit the people. For example, during a serious vegetable shortage in Shanghai in 1982, reporters wrote articles questioning the government's competence and prompting officials to find out who was responsible for vegetable production...
...workers, who struck November 1 after negotiations failed to resolve benefit issues, last week won a new three-year contract, which guaranteed continued health benefits, a limited wage increase, and for the first time granted sick and vacation...
...only noteworthy anti-Redgrave picket was Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who distributed leaflets outside a theater where she was participating in a benefit, "Boston Against Blacklisting." Though Dershowitz, a renowned civil libertarian and supporter of Israel, defended Redgrave's right to perform, he also supported the orchestra's right to "exercise its freedom of association by refusing to perform with a P.L.O. collaborator...
...increase holdings in food companies, insurance, telephone and utilities, all of which would benefit from lower interest rates...