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Colonial Williamsburg, the Museum of Modern Art, the restoration of Versailles, Fontainebleau, the cathedral at Reims, Tuskegee and Hampton institutes, Rockefeller University, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Cloisters, the UN property, and many others benefited.

In the chaotic days after 9/11, the Air Force benefitted from its experience with the most prominent of its homeland defense missions—defending the US airspace.

Schumann's Cello Concerto is the featured item on the Montreal Symphony Orchestra benefit concert Monday in Place des Arts.

The sales reps aren't getting rich at RDI, and the medical benefits aren't overly generous (RDI pays 50 percent of health insurance premiums to full-time workers), but the starting wage of $9 per hour makes the job a desirable one to people who might otherwise be toting crates in a warehouse or tending a deep-fat fryer for minimum wage.

"Our policy pays up to a hundred thousand dollars on diagnosis of any major illness, and that's paid absolutely in cash, and those benefits are tax free, paid in one lump sum."All the area's finest "rasslers" had gathered for a one-time-only fund-raising event to benefit the family of Roanoke wrestling perennial Roy Bradbury - known by his wrestling name, "Joe Powers" - who died in September.

President Reagan proved that lowering taxes would increase revenues and benefit us all.

The standard's primary purpose was to benefit our existing customers. The $80 billion teacher pension plan is struggling to find a way to close a $700 million shortfall in its retiree health benefits program without cutting benefits or asking the Legislature to raise taxes.

"A loss of benefits for teachers or raising of taxes should be the last option, not the first." "The benefits are because they like the look and feel," replied Bertrang in an e-mail to the agent, according to the affidavit.

Even the hard-won Whole Foods plan stalled in late 2001. That's when the company balked at wage and benefits provisions imposed during project negotiations with the city's Redevelopment Agency and its commissioners.

Whole Foods held that its own wage and benefits standards already exceeded the city's required minimums but said that the city's rules made the project too complex.

"I think that history will render a more favorable judgment than the current one," said Bob Lanier, who preceded Brown as mayor and endorsed him as his successor in 1997. When downtown streets are rebuilt, the light rail system is running and the airport expansion is completed, people will stop blaming Brown for the frustration they feel about the large-scale disruption from those projects and will start reaping the benefits, Lanier said.

But the benefits of choice are now being eclipsed by the problems produced by an excess of it, he argues: The increased economic specialization that gave us leisure time (and modern civilization) in the first place is now threatening to take it back, as we spend more and more hours in making consumer decisions.

Weekenders are largely opposed to Yale Farm, saying it would ruin Norfolk's small-town character; year-rounders generally argue that the course would bring economic benefits like a lower tax burden.

The primary benefits of traditional echocardiography are that doctors can view your heart and blood vessels nonsurgically and that it is virtually pain- and risk-free.

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