Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mayman added almost 50 individuals and student arts organizations requested close to $50,000 in grants for projects they argued would benefit undergraduates...
Volcker will have the leeway to drop rates if inflation stays moderate, which seems likely. In addition to falling oil prices, another encouraging sign is the restraint shown this year by labor unions. The United Mine Workers agreed to a 12% wage and benefit increase over 40 months, far less than the 37.5% hike they reaped from their previous contract. Bernstein's Levine predicts that the consumer price index will climb only 3.2% in 1985, after a 3.9% increase this year...
...offshore state could hurt him; much of his legislative time has been spent arguing key constituent issues, such as the Alaskan pipeline and treatment of his state's protected natural resources. But that same distance from the more controversial national issues--such as abortion--might rebound to his benefit. By not identifying himself with entangling and emotionally polarizing issues, experts say, Stevens may have managed to avoid alienating key Senate decision-makers...
...donation was made by Democrats for the '80s, a Washington-based political action committee. The PAC bought tickets to a fund-raiser on Sept. 14, co-chaired by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54, to benefit the winner of the Democratic Senate primary...
...began one report: "So far, he's proving Lincoln was right. You can fool all of the people some of the time." The Post's David Broder discouragingly described "a nation that does not want to be bothered by anything that does not translate into immediate personal benefit." Broder in conversation ascribes this to a prospering economy and to "contentment with Reagan as they have seen him. But they don't see him in meetings, they don't see him in unprepared situations." That is why, Broder believes, Reagan's debate performance disturbed so many...