Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judy VanIngen, like many Cambridge residents who live in one of the city's 17,000 rent-controlled apartments, puts little stock in claims that Proposition 1-2-3 is designed for her benefit...
...Senate ethics committee to appoint an outside counsel to investigate the five Senators' efforts for Lincoln and their alliance with Keating, who has been in trouble with federal regulators once before. In 1979 the SEC cited Keating for receiving illegal loans and using corporate funds for the personal benefit of insiders...
...even talk about fairness. Almost no one disputes that most of the benefit of the proposed tax break for capital gains -- profits from the sale of investment assets such as stocks and real estate -- would go to people with incomes of more than $200,000 a year, or that the average person in that pleasant category would save $25,000 a year in taxes. The dispute is whether this break (which has passed the House and is currently stalled in the Senate) would be so good for the economy that we would all prosper from it, making resistance on fairness...
...conventional arms and strategic nuclear arsenals. In addition, Shevardnadze in his speech last week spoke of Moscow's desire to join such Western economic institutions as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and GATT (the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade). Like Hungary, the Soviet Union could benefit from most-favored-nation trade status...
...reader's judgment. Fact: Nixon was so habitual a deceiver that in 1962, 48 hours after saying defeat would at least restore his family life, he left for the Bahamas without his wife and daughters. Fact: during 1968 he artfully cultivated Lyndon Johnson's goodwill for his own benefit and later repaid his predecessor with small kindnesses. Fact: Viet Nam and other realities he inherited on Inauguration Day forced him to choke his own genuine hawkishness and preside over the retreat of American power...