Word: benn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...downsizing mode, conflicts over job-development subsidies are white-hot. Critics denounce incentives as welfare for private enterprise that isn't paying off. "This is an issue whose time has come because too many giveaways are gnawing away at the tax base of our communities," says Jim Benn, executive director of the Federation for Industrial Retention and Renewal, a grass-roots research group in Chicago. "Teachers and firemen are being laid off, and homeowners and small businesses are getting stuck with even more of the burden...
Harvard seniors Lawrence G. Benn, Amy N. Finkelstein, Theodore W. Hong, Jesse L. Tseng and Deborah J. Wexler all were granted the scholarship, which will enable them to study a subject of their choice...
...interview was not as stressful as everyone had told me it would be," said Benn, who is an English concentrator and plans to study the subject further at Oxford. "I had read the Economist and the Spectator to prepare for the interview but they didn't ask me anything about them. It was just 30 minutes of pointed questions aimed at my specific topic...
...very relieved that the suspense is over," said Benn, a Kirkland House resident...
...Benn added that he was too curious to wait for the official phone call on December 2 and called before Thanksgiving for the results...