Word: benefitting
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L.B.J.'s Great Society gave the welfare state a mighty push. In the 1960s, benefit checks began to flow out of Washington in a stream that soon became a torrent: a nationwide food-stamp program, rent supplements for the poor, scholarships for college students, federal grants for the arts, Medicare, Medicaid, higher pensions for federal employees and veterans, subsidized low-income housing, aid to handicapped children. Despite Johnson's intention to help the helpless, middle-and even upper-income groups climbed aboard...
...plants and equipment, a 14.8% increase over 1983. "We seem to be in the midst of an investment boom," says Michael Levy, director of economic policy research at the Conference Board, a business supported think tank in New York City. In addition, manufacturing companies held wage and benefit increases last year to an average of 5.4%. Since worker productivity jumped 6.2%, U.S. industry managed its first reduction in labor costs in nearly two decades. Says U.S. Trade Representative William Brock: "We have taken this time of agony to really clean our house. Business and labor have done an incredibly good...
Business lobbyists succeeded in protecting various interest groups, like the owners of shopping centers whose tenants go bankrupt. All kinds of businesses will benefit from new measures that make it more difficult for consumers to avoid paying their bills by filing for personal bankruptcy. Since 1979, the number of those cases has gone from 197,000 to 440,000 a year. Judges will now have to consider the ability of individuals to pay off their debts before declaring them bankrupt, and consumers can be held liable for bills they run up during the 40 days before going to court...
Most state politicans agree that Richardson's toughest hurdle may be Shamie. The September 18 primary will be contested among hardcore Republicans, and Richardson will not have the benefit of registered Democrats and many Independents, who can vote in either party primary. But Richardson may have another problem--himself...
...apprehensive McWhirter joined Bombeck over the course of several weeks this spring, participating in her own family birthday party, a charity benefit and a shoot for a Good Morning America segment. "Erma is a truly inventive, comic force, mugging continually, swatting one-liners everywhere," he says. "When she is on the phone, she is on the phone. Lunch is funny. The guest-bathroom soap is funny. Even the imminent house guests are funny...