I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a potential benefit
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The potential benefits must be weighed up against the costs involved.
added advantage/bonus/benefit etc
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The system has the added advantage of recordable DVD drives.
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Include people in your picture for added interest .
aid/financial/benefits etc package
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Many banks are offering financial packages for students.
benefit/holiday/pension etc entitlement
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The paid holiday entitlement is 25 days.
child benefit
derive...benefit
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Medically, we will derive great benefit from this technique.
extol the virtues/benefits etc of sth
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a speech extolling the merits of free enterprise
fringe benefit
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A competitive salary with fringe benefits will be offered.
health benefits
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the health benefits of doing yoga
incidental benefit
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Increased motivation is more than an incidental benefit of reward schemes.
lasting benefits
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The reforms will bring lasting benefits .
maternity benefits/pay etc (= money that the government or employers give to a woman after she has had a baby )
preach the virtues/merits/benefits of sth
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a politician preaching the virtues of a free market
reap the benefit/reward/profit (of sth)
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Those who do take risks often reap the rewards.
retirement benefits British English (= in Britain, money provided through the state pension scheme )
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Part-time workers at the company do, however, get health and retirement benefits.
sickness benefit
side benefit
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A side benefit to filming close-up shots is that your microphone will pick up clearer sound.
spillover effect/benefit/cost
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The weak European economy will have a spillover effect on the US dollar.
state benefit
tangible benefits
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The scheme must have tangible benefits for the unemployed.
the benefits outweigh the risks (= they are more important than the possible risks )
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The benefits to patients who are taking the drug far outweigh the risks.
the benefit/wisdom of hindsight
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With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to criticize.
unemployment benefit
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people on unemployment benefit
welfare benefits/services/programmes etc
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the provision of education and welfare services
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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These environmental objections were considered to be serious enough to outweigh the economic benefits of allowing the proposal.
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The economic benefits of such a reduction would be very large.
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I agree with them that economic benefits will come from long-term policies of timing and continuity.
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This exercise of economic power could be coercive, in the sense that A might prevent B from enjoying certain economic benefits .
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How does one decide whether the overall economic costs of regulation outweigh the overall economic benefits of regulation?
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For example, a warrant will usually not be a liability as it does not contain an obligation to transfer economic benefits .
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Other crucial factors are the distribution of social and economic benefits and issues of accountability.
financial
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One solution is to state that any financial benefits are only paid when the move has taken place.
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Those financial benefits are no longer certain, however.
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The financial benefits gained in terms of productivity and maintaining an occupational income by returning to work are clear.
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The inaccurate economic predictions should cause concern about the reliability of the financial benefits of annexation.
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The implicit justification, which cites the financial benefits of the nation possessing a monarchy, is a rationalization in this sense.
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Eickman said movie-making provides far-reaching financial benefits for the city, adding an estimated $ 50 million to the economy in 1994.
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Conversely, political integration will inevitably fall apart if there is no financial benefit .
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How will you measure when it is time to start gaining financial benefit ?
fringe
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They could deduct wages, but not interest costs, most other taxes or fringe benefits .
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Individuals would not pay taxes on interest or investment income, and businesses could not deduct the cost of fringe benefits .
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Working condition fringe benefits are tax-free.
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What shows up in the statistics as fringe benefits is really a private social welfare payment from the young to the old.
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If a fringe benefit is not excluded from income, then a value has to be placed on it.
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Prepaid plans for legal services are now available to over 2 million households as fringe benefits in union contracts.
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The downsizing of big firms with high wages and good fringe benefits continues at an unrelenting pace.
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Women continue to be denied fringe benefits and wages equivalent to those received by men.
full
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Realizing this will gradually help you to gain confidence to go deeper and deeper into relaxation and experience full benefit from it.
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The workers have been drawing their full salaries and benefits during the negotiations, Miller said.
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On top of the recovery in demand, Forte stands to gain the full benefit of cost reductions of £40m made last year.
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Ray was seldom inclined to be succinct, and he gave his interrogators the full benefit of his thinking.
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But unlike their counterparts at Nissan and Toyota, none enjoys the full benefits of trade union membership.
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Such an approach ensures that those who are poor gain the full national insurance benefit increases.
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It also notes that applications will have to be recompiled to get full benefit from the chip.
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We regret that people in wheelchairs would not be able to gain full benefit from the visit.
great
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However, the rewards of spending a significant amount of time with your offspring brings great spiritual benefit .
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They want their gift to provide the greatest benefit possible.
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It is here that any given expenditure will produce the greatest environmental benefit .
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And you will have met enough engrams to get some ideas that can be of great benefit to Dianetics.
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The exercises have been designed and arranged progressively, and for greatest benefit the days must be done in proper sequence.
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Cities in the county generate most of the sales-tax revenue, yet the county reaps the greatest benefit , he added.
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This quality could bring great benefit to the clatter and chatter of much parochial worship.
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MCofS would be glad to operate the scheme - to the great benefit of everybody.
marginal
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There is a case for government intervention to make sure marginal social cost and marginal social benefit are equated.
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Marginal social cost and marginal social benefit would then be equated at the point E *;.
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It shows the marginal benefit to the individual.
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Thus, beyond a certain point the marginal social benefit of further risk reduction will exceed the marginal social cost.
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The market ensures that the price equals the marginal benefit and the marginal cost, and hence equates the two.
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D 2 D 2 shows the marginal benefit of purer water to the second individual.
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Calculations of the social marginal costs and benefits of cutting back pollution tend to be conspicuous by their absence.
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What is the social marginal benefit of the last unit to the group as a whole?
maximum
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They know the modern trick is to extract the maximum political benefit from the Games without appearing to politicize them.
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Study these carefully to ensure you gain maximum benefit from every interview you attend.
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It needs to be powerful, yet flexible enough to get the most out of the network and provide maximum business benefits .
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Raul Salinas once had her arrange his office furniture for maximum karmic benefit .
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Also available is an Income Protection Plan with a maximum benefit of £6,000 a month.
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This is the only way to get maximum benefit from the promising new AIDS-virus treatments.
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Practise it slowly for maximum benefit and to safeguard your back.
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For example, the maximum benefit for a 65-year-old this year is $ 1, 199 a month.
mutual
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Both management and operatives are locked into a closer relationship, with both mutual benefits and disadvantages.
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It is joint action for mutual benefit .
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Successful marriages so submerge the costs under mutual benefits that the cooperation can predominate; unsuccessful ones do not.
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In principle therefore payment of an Affiliation Fee would be an overt recognition of this vital link and mutual benefit . 5.
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For any relationship to remain healthy, both parties must appreciate the mutual exchange of benefits .
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Perhaps I better explain that symbiosis is popularly defined as a relationship between two differing life forms for their mutual benefit .
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Both Nunn and Solomon stressed the mutual benefits of a friendlier relationship.
other
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And the sooner you start investing, the greater that income - and other benefits - can be.
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A crop, however, has other benefits .
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Around one third of pensioners are so poor that their basic state pension is topped up with other state benefits .
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Child benefit , the principal family benefit, has not been increased in line with pensions and other benefits.
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There is also a belief that alcohol has certain other benefits .
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Nevertheless, I do admit relishing its other benefits , particularly water on tap.
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Note also any other potential benefits for individuals and their family and friends.
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He wasn't interested in other benefits and he didn't want to insure his own life.
potential
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The significance of such questions can only be assessed in the light of present knowledge and potential benefits weighed against potential risks.
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The mood on the street is positive, and the larger property owners appear to recognize the potential benefits .
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The potential benefits of this will be discussed in the next chapter.
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They also should consider the potential benefits of shared use.
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Financial environmental appraisal is used to estimate the potential costs and benefits of responding to shortfalls highlighted in other audits.
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But as school-to-work has developed, its potential benefits for any student have become more apparent.
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The potential benefits of Lalzad's research are obvious.
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The experts on such matters pegged the potential economic benefits at around $ 300 million.
social
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Such reduced absenteeism is a social benefit in that it reduces public expenditure through the statutory sick-pay scheme.
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But do I think genuine social benefits will flow from victory in my cases?-precious few....
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They can have very different employment protection laws and social benefits .
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He also said he doubted that Congress would vote to increase taxes on Social Security benefits .
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Secondly, there are non-contributory social security benefits payable without any means-test.
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To apply the social efficiency criterion the government needs information on social costs and benefits .
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Expanding output would add more to social benefit than to social cost.
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What is the social marginal benefit of the last unit to the group as a whole?
supplementary
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As a first step pensions and child benefit were to be raised and long-term supplementary benefit extended to the long-term unemployed.
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By the end of the decade, unclaimed supplementary benefit reached £410 million.
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One of the Government's aims in moving from supplementary benefit to income support was to simplify the system.
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I had to pay out of my supplementary benefit , £7 an hour, just once a week.
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Third, since supplementary benefit can be paid indefinitely, long strikes are prolonged into longer strikes.
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Now she's unemployed and her husband has tuberculosis and they live on supplementary benefit with their two children.
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At the same time the old supplementary benefit and heating allowances were abolished and a new system of income support was introduced.
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The Public Records Office currently retains some supplementary benefit records but there is no systematic sampling system.
tangible
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Life-chances include income, perks and pensions, together with less tangible benefits such as security or good working conditions.
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Once again, being informed is a tangible benefit .
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The employer had, therefore, to incur heavy development costs before any net tangible benefits would accrue from the invention.
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It must have tangible benefits for the unemployed and the community.
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Successful motivation depends on emphasising positive tangible benefits .
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Perform a cost-benefit analysis: identify intangible and tangible benefits and costs before putting in the required resources.
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Unless they can make themselves more relevant and deliver some tangible benefits , they face going out of business.
■ NOUN
child
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As a first step pensions and child benefit were to be raised and long-term supplementary benefit extended to the long-term unemployed.
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Against this he would gain an extra £4.60 a week in increased child benefit from Labour.
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Are changes such as means-testing child benefit and state pensions simply unthinkable?
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First, like other families, the value of their child benefit has fallen since 1984.
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A Labour victory would have boosted their disposable income by £311, mainly because of the increase in child benefit .
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Since 1979, with one exception, every increase in child benefit has been deducted from the additions.
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If the increase in child benefit had been a real increase, there might have been some logic in that.
concert
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He later played a benefit concert in aid of the protest.
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Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
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This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
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This either takes the form of a benefit concert or a private party.
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I hope they don't ask me to come and do a benefit concert up there.
health
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The evidence now suggests that giving up smoking in the seventh decade of life brings health benefits .
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Or it could be other things in the foods that happen to be rich in beta carotene that provide the health benefits .
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The President may indeed have settled on a programme of health benefits and how to finance them.
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To encourage employers to provide health benefits , the cost they incur could be credited toward the minimum-wage increase.
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It might be noted that some of these health benefits are very substantial.
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Knight said such a situation would create an undue hardship for businesses that would have to pay the cost of health benefits .
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Packs of St Ival's Carapelli will carry information on the spread's health benefits from January 28.
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The biggest public health benefit , he said, would come from getting unfit people to exercise at least a little.
housing
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The few that are not - those with high housing benefit - can be helped through the access funds.
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Changing supplementary and housing benefit would be more contentious than reforming occupational pensions.
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You can get more information about the housing benefit scheme from your local authority.
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The housing benefit they can claim to offset that bill is added to the total income.
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The total cuts in housing benefit deriving from such changes have reduced the projected expenditure by £950 million.
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Some low income people may have reductions, as they do now with rates, probably through housing benefit .
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He has a total income of £68.05, although housing benefit is paid direct.
security
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Table 3.21 gives a picture of the expenditure on the various social security benefits in Great Britain for 1980.
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Social Security benefits are adjusted to account for inflation and are guaranteed for life.
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Secondly, there are non-contributory social security benefits payable without any means-test.
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He also said he doubted that Congress would vote to increase taxes on Social Security benefits .
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Fourth, social security benefits are so generous that many people are financially better off out of work than at work.
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The proposed reforms in the delivery of social security benefits to customers is a case in point.
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Cuts in social security benefits have important implications for ethnic minorities because of their higher rates of unemployment.
sickness
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Insured workers who are off sick are entitled to draw sickness benefit .
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This fund was set up during the 1880s as a means of providing sickness benefit for employees.
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Spending cuts would especially affect public administration and, within the social welfare budget, the level of payments on sickness benefit .
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Temporary appropriations for paying civil servants' wages and unemployment and sickness benefits will have run out by then.
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The most novel approach related to sickness benefit .
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It was decided that state sickness benefit was to be taxed by its abolition!
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From April 1983, the first eight weeks of sickness benefit were to be met by the employer.
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Some items of expenditure like supplementary benefit or sickness benefit are demand-led commitments.
state
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The letter asks him to consider the needs of older people dependent on state benefits .
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Around one third of pensioners are so poor that their basic state pension is topped up with other state benefits .
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They live on state benefits in London, and were granted permission to stay until 2002.
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Two-thirds of this group got over three-quarters of their income from state benefits and only 7 percent had any earnings from employment.
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She has no legal income other than state benefits .
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Nearly 60% of pensioners receive at least 75% of their income from state benefits , particularly the basic pension.
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The local cockle fishermen resent the newcomers and claim some of them are working beds while also claiming state benefits .
unemployment
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Nor does unemployment benefit: recession has meant problems for many parents.
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New government reports released Thursday showed fewer claims for unemployment benefits and strong demand for new homes.
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The two trade union confederations undertook to refrain from general strikes in return for minimum wage and unemployment benefit guarantees.
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In Texas, 1, 200 have applied for unemployment benefit claims.
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All the women who had paid full National Insurance contributions had sufficient contributions to be eligible for unemployment benefit .
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The following review is selective and concentrates on the way unemployment benefit impacts on women.
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The two most basic benefits are income support and unemployment benefit.
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Family credit is also available on unemployment benefit , although this is counted as income.
welfare
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How effective are welfare benefits as redistributive measures?
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If Congress ends welfare benefits , the state then would have to pick up the costs.
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Similarly, drug-free status must be a basic of eligibility for federal welfare benefits .
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Almost all have been without welfare benefits or explanation.
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The terminal workers were fired, and they lost their health and welfare benefits .
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In addition, government policies on taxation and welfare benefits will have a significant influence.
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The measure would also limit cash welfare benefits to a total of five years.
■ VERB
bring
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However, the rewards of spending a significant amount of time with your offspring brings great spiritual benefit .
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Which brings us to another benefit of a Gumbel / Sawyer hire.
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The Tunnel may also bring benefits of its own.
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Viewed from outside the confines of that self-absorbed city, Muni is an expense and a nightmare that brings virtually no benefit .
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For example, regulation may bring benefits in terms of consumer protection but add costs by making firms less competitive.
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This quality could bring great benefit to the clatter and chatter of much parochial worship.
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His ideas appeared to bring some benefits: he lived to the age of 94 and at 87 married a young wife.
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If they do, they will certainly bring great benefits to the public in their district.
claim
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Consequently, rather than earning a wage, they are likely to find themselves claiming a range of benefits , grants and allowances.
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That is of course a child for the purpose of claiming a benefit .
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Anyone having to pay the full personal Community Charge can claim community charge benefit .
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Conservatives seek to obstruct people who wish to claim backdated benefits .
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They would be able to claim benefit in their own right and for their husbands as their dependants.
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Only a small minority had claimed unemployment benefit before and so they found the complex procedures bewildering and confusing.
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They have interpreted new and complex legislation to help families claim additional benefits .
derive
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The Detailed Spectrum Investigation process is intended to ensure that everyone should derive maximum benefit from the limited radio spectrum resource.
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Elderly people who have had an accident derive great benefit from the project.
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Intelligent application of the technique can take these warnings into account and still derive considerable benefit from it.
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Training programmes and personal preparation of salespeople should pay particular attention to deriving the customer benefits their products bestow.
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To derive benefit from taekwondo training, the body has to be in peak physical condition.
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Thus, females and kids clearly derive some benefit from living in groups.
enjoy
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But unlike their counterparts at Nissan and Toyota, none enjoys the full benefits of trade union membership.
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The Huskies enjoy the benefit of a devoted, vocal following.
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And the press enjoyed the benefit of Profumo's total inexperience in handling publicity.
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My sister Janie Ming-li also enjoyed the benefits of deep-seated superstition.
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Take your time choosing your ring and enjoy the benefit of receiving expert help and advice from the Beaverbrooks professionally trained staff.
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Cronkite is perfectly frank about how much he enjoyed the non-journalistic benefits of national stardom.
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You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism.
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This exercise of economic power could be coercive, in the sense that A might prevent B from enjoying certain economic benefits .
gain
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On top of the recovery in demand, Forte stands to gain the full benefit of cost reductions of £40m made last year.
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Study these carefully to ensure you gain maximum benefit from every interview you attend.
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He became close friends with the Pipers and gained great benefits from their taste, experience and enthusiasm.
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How will you measure when it is time to start gaining financial benefit ?
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Staff would have new opportunities to gain additional skills and benefit from greater flexibility.
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So Swannson-on-Wheels will gain considerable benefit from the purchase of a relatively local garage facility on the outskirts of Tetbury.
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In this manner the fish gain the benefits of both food sources.
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Small farms in the public sector have been grouped together in cooperatives to gain all the benefits possible from size and concentration.
give
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The scorer had been given the benefit of any possible doubt.
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She smiled and seemed to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Under these circumstances, Yeltsin has, at present, to be given the benefit of the doubt.
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I was giving him the benefit of the doubt.
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This is giving the editors the benefit of the doubt.
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And you were given the benefits of learning!
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Social democracy would give us the benefits of both capitalism and socialism without their faults.
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The improved treatment was investigated for patients whose only disorder was severe depression, and found to give much benefit .
increase
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By co-operating, countries can increase the benefit they receive, relative to the cost.
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The discipline of measuring benefits and costs locates waste, helps determine priorities, and can result in increased benefits.
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In this way, you could increase your benefits from the Plan.
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Benefit scheme: Details of a North-East pilot scheme aimed at increasing awareness of benefits available to working people were announced yesterday.
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When taxes were increased , wages and benefits were also increased accordingly.
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Since then, the Government has had a statutory responsibility to increase benefits only in line with prices.
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The most effective way to reduce poverty quickly is to increase child benefit and pensions and take low-paid people out of taxation.
lose
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Punishing the young Young people aged 18-24 years who remain out of work can lose benefits .
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They do not lose the benefits that go to their children.
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By reducing the output of chemicals society would save more in social cost than it would lose in social benefit .
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If they do not, many will lose benefits .
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If they refuse to join one of the schemes, they lose their benefits .
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But take heart: You may have the chance to make up those lost benefits .
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Previously they would have lost benefit solely for the one day on which they earned above the limit.
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Many welfare recipients -- Those lacking education or living where there are no ready jobs lose benefits after a year or two.
offer
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Several new contracts are already being negotiated with Rentokil's financial backing and branch network offering further benefits to prospects.
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Ironically, a primary father may offer a special benefit to his children.
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Such a code, moreover, offered mutual benefits , making it easier to turn today's enemies into tomorrow's allies.
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The state of Minnesota offered such benefits , but the program was phased out in 1998.
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A million copies of the booklet have been printed and a Freephone helpline offers information on benefits .
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Remember, keep your letter short. Offer positive benefits for the company by highlighting what you can do for them.
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Although the King's intentions were not partisan, the consequences were such as to offer very considerable benefit to the Conservative party.
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Corporations no longer brag about their generous benefits; instead they take pride in offering stingy benefits and low wages.
outweigh
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These environmental objections were considered to be serious enough to outweigh the economic benefits of allowing the proposal.
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The likely dangers of traditional internationalism are starting to outweigh any plausible benefits .
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How does one decide whether the overall economic costs of regulation outweigh the overall economic benefits of regulation?
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To some Arizona Democrats, the cost has far outweighed the benefits .
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The design and administration of transitional rules in themselves suggest high short-run costs that may well outweigh discounted long-run benefits .
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But though the negative aspects of their relationship outweighed its benefits , their association had proved useful.
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Yet it is doubtful whether this argument outweighs the benefits a teacher gains from being able to concentrate his interests.
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When the cost of cooperation outweighs its benefits , society soon breaks down.
pay
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First, the same person both pays tax and receives benefit in the same financial year.
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He observes that managed care companies have simply responded to employers who pay health benefits and want to cut costs.
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The administrators are alleging that the company's money was misappropriated and paid away for no benefit to the company.
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Better pay , better benefits , better everything.
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The jobs themselves are poorly paid , but the benefits , especially in higher education, are incalculable.
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Right now, payroll taxes are bringing in far more each year than the system is paying in benefits .
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Moreover, manual workers tended to be paid benefits for shorter periods of time and they received smaller amounts than non-manual workers.
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Currently, the system collects much more in payroll taxes than it pays out in benefits .
provide
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What then is the cost to the employer of providing the in-house benefit for the employee?
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Large global organizations are unable to keep their promises to provide these benefits .
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It is thought that therapeutic operations provide such a social benefit by the psychological benefit.
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Or it could be other things in the foods that happen to be rich in beta carotene that provide the health benefits .
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The move provides several benefits: Work can, to a greater extent, be proactive rather than reactive.
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Eickman said movie-making provides far-reaching financial benefits for the city, adding an estimated $ 50 million to the economy in 1994.
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The combination of greater competition and better regulation will provide the benefits that customers need.
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Legislative acts that levied taxes and defined benefits have never contained any provisions for investing in assets to provide future benefits.
reap
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All this has happened in the country that was first to reap the benefits of radical reform.
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First, to be sure, some reap material benefit from inflation.
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He hoped he would be able to reap the benefit of this enforced rest later, and see his drawings more freshly.
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So he reaps the benefits privately and shares the costs publicly.
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I was quite happy to reap the benefits of being a fully fledged malai killer.
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Cities in the county generate most of the sales-tax revenue, yet the county reaps the greatest benefit , he added.
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The area was still reaping the benefits a decade after the film's release.
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That helped their own re-election campaigns, but also allowed Clinton to reap political benefit .
receive
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Often a widower has to prove that he was dependent on his wife before he can receive benefit .
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Workers are paid in glass, receive their social benefits in glass and must sell the glass to stay alive.
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They will also receive the benefit of 60 percent of the infrastructure profits on all the other business.
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And we let him know we understood that and that we expected to receive a comparable benefit for ourselves in that regard.
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Then you will receive both the hospitalisation benefit and, if applicable, the lump sum benefit for your injuries.
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After I had been receiving workers' compensation benefits for a month, my employer laid me off.
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It promises higher top-rate income taxes for individuals and corporations - and on the wealthier retirees who also receive government benefits .
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Until welfare reform, staying home to receive those benefits was, unfortunately, a rational economic choice.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
feel the force/effects/benefits etc of sth
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Both say they now feel the effects of alcohol far sooner than when they smoked.
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He feels the effects of the night before, of a beat struck many times last night and last year.
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His body was slack, and as he grew colder and more tired, he felt the force of his will diminish.
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Kodak felt the effects of the anemic retail environment in December, the worst holiday shopping season since the 1991 recession.
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Southern California residents will feel the benefits of the new fuel, rather than see them.
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The next hour passed amiably, by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day.
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This force is universal, that is, every particle feels the force of gravity, according to its mass or energy.
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When they speak, I feel the force of history bearing down on me.
for your own good/safety/benefit etc
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He will work for your financial independence and will never take advantage or misuse your money for his own good.
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Intelligent Buildings Too smart for their own good?
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It looked as if the transports were advancing too fast for their own safety.
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Lewin and Nnah were also led away for their own safety.
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Of course they kept a sharp lookout in such congested waters for their own safety.
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Often one step too many for his own good.
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We got too famous for our own good.
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You might be just a wee bit too clever for your own good now.
portable benefits
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a benefit being held at a downtown hotel
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a benefit concert for the Children's Hospital
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Child benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years.
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If you were fired from your previous job, you may not be able to claim unemployment benefit .
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social security benefits
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Surely she'll be eligible for housing benefit ?
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The benefits include full medical cover when traveling abroad.
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the benefits of a healthy lifestyle
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The company provides medical benefits.
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the safety benefits of wearing bicycle helmets
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There are several benefits you can claim if you are unemployed.
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Tourism has brought many benefits to the area.
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Two-thirds of lone parents are on benefit .
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What are the benefits for Britain of belonging to the European Union?
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You should find out about any benefits you're entitled to.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, some employers go basic with the benefits because that is all they can afford.
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Both Nunn and Solomon stressed the mutual benefits of a friendlier relationship.
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Businesses would lose a whole raft of deductions, including those for employee benefits such as health care.
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It suffices that customers are expected to act in a way that will provide economic benefits to the entity.
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Let's reap the benefits of a service that is at least 30% better.
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Thus the would-be entrepreneur can keep drawing benefits, and, if the business fails, they haven't lost out.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
enormously
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But I've benefited enormously from having a stable, normal home life.
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He has been unerring in his choice of assistants and from all this wisdom the county has benefited enormously .
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The argument usually deployed is that the millionaire will benefit enormously , but there are very few millionaires.
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Yes, the population of Essex will benefit enormously from their four years of excellent subsidised training.
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Our knowledge and ability to treat pelvic-floor disorders has benefited enormously from the availability of newer diagnostic and surgical approaches.
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We felt that both the Johnson Collection and the museum would benefit enormously from joining one another.
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On her unlucky nights she really would benefit enormously from a gift of blood.
greatly
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As we have seen Nonconformists benefited greatly from rising standards of living and the movement to the suburbs.
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Las Vegas benefited greatly from an influx of visitors, many of whom made stopovers on the way to Phoenix.
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In both contract races Hunslet benefited greatly from its low overheads.
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But he benefits greatly by knowing that you know and respect what he wants.
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It is at this point that a right heart attitude would benefit greatly from an intelligent technique.
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If anything like this is offered, most people would benefit greatly from participating.
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They also include the control of environmental pollution, and we could benefit greatly through co-operating further on defence and foreign policy.
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In 1986, for instance, Dole supported an inheritance tax code that greatly benefited the Gallos.
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community
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This will benefit the local community with better access to the nearby footpath.
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Local polytechnic and local football team are working together to benefit the community .
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They would become too expensive if the clean up were needed, and again, would not benefit the community widely.
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The quotas allocated to a member state should benefit the fishing communities of that state.
company
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Loan demand was noticeably weak, with companies benefiting from increased Government spending and increased use of the capital market.
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Other team members ask Vickie to find out if any decision has been made on the change in the company benefits package.
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And North-East companies could benefit from the buying bonanza, according to Mr Hamilton.
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Mr McVeigh said the investment programme would enable the company to benefit from economic recovery in its most important markets.
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The company is now benefiting from the popularity of period design in a wider market.
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How did the company benefit from having me on the staff?
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Many of these companies may also benefit from economies of scale as they expand into such activities.
country
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Richmond, you might say, is in festive mood, and the whole country can benefit from that.
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Honest answers to these questions suggest that the general assumption that growth in one country benefits the entire world is highly dubious.
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On balance the economy of the dispatching countries would have benefited more by employing its human resources than by expelling them.
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Only 45 % said they felt that their country had benefited from membership.
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All three countries will thus benefit in the areas where their defence technologies are now weak.
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But they're the first people in the country to benefit from a revolutionary kind of wheelchair; the Sapphire.
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Since it is difficult to predict how rainfall will alter, it is uncertain which countries will benefit and which will suffer.
economy
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All this will benefit the economy only if enterprises respond.
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It may reduce the opportunities for benefiting from economies of scale.
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Many of these companies may also benefit from economies of scale as they expand into such activities.
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We are not benefiting from economies of scale, we are simply a 200ha filler between two much larger neighbours.
education
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The rise in government expenditure especially benefited the education budget which was increased by 8.6 percent to F228,000 million.
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President Clinton has been able to include in the forecast his proposed spending for Head Start and tax benefits for higher education .
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Children who suffer from prolonged ill-health inevitably benefit less from education than healthy children.
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Millions of acres around Arizona were set aside at statehood and must be sold or leased for maximum gain to benefit education .
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Some health workers may benefit from education , examination, and resources for wise management.
employee
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In what sense, if at all, have employees benefited from privatisation?
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It will cause working conditions to erode and employee benefits to be reduced.
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The overriding anxiety for the employees was what benefits they could claim and how much they would receive.
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The repurchased shares will be used for employee-benefit programs and general corporate purposes, Merck said.
experience
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You are likely to benefit from the experience too.
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All California children could benefit from these experiences .
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SmithKline could also benefit from Beecham's experience in selling over-the-counter medicines.
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The student has to benefit from up-to-date practical experience on the part of the teacher trainer.
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The best way, however, is to benefit from your own experience .
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Vijay Singh and Paul Broadhurst are just two examples of young players with real potential who have obviously benefited from the experience .
health
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You don't have to be training for the Boston Marathon to derive real health benefits from physical activity.
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Those employees were entitled to health and welfare benefits under a labor contract between Santa Fe and the labor union.
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The obvious question raised is whether it is possible for sedentary workers to obtain health benefits by physical activity in leisure time.
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Both sides then get to show how concerned about health benefits they are, and the voters win.
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Some health workers may benefit from education, examination, and resources for wise management.
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Medicare is a federally administered program of health benefits for elderly and disabled persons.
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A law passed by voters in 1994 gave retirement and health benefits to city employees' domestic partners.
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Indeed, advocates for the elderly say some seniors have complained about being denied access to home health benefits .
patient
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In particular, more still needs to be known about the characteristics of patients most likely to benefit from treatment.
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Some patients may benefit from a stress management programme, while severe cases may require the multidisciplinary services of a pain clinic.
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A large number of Good Samaritan heart patients benefit from the stress echo test.
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There is no doubt that they were sincere in their belief that their patients would benefit from their involvement.
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Unquestionably, some migraine patients do not benefit from or can not tolerate either of the above classes of drugs.
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The researchers say it is these patients who will benefit .
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Some of these patients benefit from referral to a chronic pain center.
people
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The only people to benefit from the clash were the philatelists.
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See how an economy designed around building more houses for new people benefits existing residents?
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It follows that working-class people have benefited from this, but they are still more likely to be overcrowded than non-manual groups.
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That would mean in California there are more than 1 million people who could benefit from the new service.
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However, the two substantial hurdles which protect the Fund mean many people will not benefit .
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These young people were not benefiting from traditional lectures and abstract materials, he argued.
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Newsgroup Etiquette Newsgroups, like so many other public places, get abused by the very people who benefit from them.
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More than three out of five people got no unemployment benefits at all.
project
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Frank Thorp said the project still will benefit the Navy.
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About £15 million of a total Partnership expenditure of £123 million was spent on projects likely to benefit ethnic minorities.
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But because the school has applied as a schoolwide Chapter 1 project , all students benefit .
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Renewable energy projects benefit from a price premium financed by a levy on the power industry.
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Hence, many projects benefit a relatively narrow group of people and impose costs on all taxpayers.
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Among the projects to benefit are a creche and health care bursaries.
student
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How do students benefit from Compact?
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About 132, 000 students would benefit .
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The student has to benefit from up-to-date practical experience on the part of the teacher trainer.
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But because the school has applied as a schoolwide Chapter 1 project, all students benefit .
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To what extent though do student architects actually benefit from staying at university or polytechnic for so long?
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Depending upon the degree of estrangement, many parents of work-inhibited students may benefit from rethinking existing patterns of communication.
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Feedback Between Teachers and Employers All students would benefit from the ongoing exchange of information between employers and educators.
treatment
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In particular, more still needs to be known about the characteristics of patients most likely to benefit from treatment .
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The first is to select those who are more likely to benefit from disulfiram treatment .
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Other birds to benefit from the treatment include a tawny owl with an injured leg, now making a fast recovery.
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The subset who benefited from disulfiram treatment were older and more socially stable than others who relapsed.
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Even though not all the results of chiropractic adjustment are this dramatic, many sportsmen and women have benefited from chiropractic treatment .
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Marginal plants can benefit considerably from this treatment , but it should not be provided for those of a rampant nature.
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Heat exchangers might also benefit from treatment with polymers.
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A further unpublished project attempted to assess the anxiety characteristics of the type of client who benefited most from the treatment package.
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continue
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Exhibition revenue rose 7 % and continued to benefit from the medium's effectiveness in bringing buyers and sellers together.
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To be sure, bonds continued to benefit from a two-day rally in the U. S. Treasury market.
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These plans are immune from the changes and will continue to benefit from carry-forward rules.
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Hongkongers will not complain as long as the Li family shares continue to benefit from it.
expect
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We all expect to benefit equally from clean water, clean air, access to screening facilities, and so on.
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Allocations for the other housing programs were also expected to directly benefit low-income families and individuals.
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That might be expected to benefit others on the left.
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His daughter Anna might well have expected to benefit from his death. her boyfriend likewise, though indirectly.
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This year, Philips expects Grundig to benefit from stronger economic growth, especially in the second half.
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Many consumers are expected to benefit as carriers fight for their business.
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Chicago-based Quaker, which dominates the hot oatmeal market, is expected to benefit most from the proposed change.
stand
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The bank itself stands to benefit by providing financial services to technologically orientated companies that are successful.
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We knew without saying it that we both stood to benefit from a street as cleared out as possible.
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The multinationals that stand to benefit were deeply involved in the negotiations to establish Gats.
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Pupils with special needs also stand to benefit from other developments in mainstream education.
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It doesn't matter if your Executor stands to benefit from the Will.
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They stand to benefit little from the insider dealing prohibition.
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Who stands to benefit from a growing reservoir of divided unprotected workers?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
for your own good/safety/benefit etc
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He will work for your financial independence and will never take advantage or misuse your money for his own good.
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Intelligent Buildings Too smart for their own good?
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It looked as if the transports were advancing too fast for their own safety.
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Lewin and Nnah were also led away for their own safety.
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Of course they kept a sharp lookout in such congested waters for their own safety.
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Often one step too many for his own good.
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We got too famous for our own good.
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You might be just a wee bit too clever for your own good now.
portable benefits
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Admission is $5, with proceeds benefiting a local children's charity.
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Critics argue that the tax cuts will only benefit large companies.
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New regulations will greatly benefit the region's poorest residents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And investors benefit if companies are clearly, not hazily, understood by the City.
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He expects stocks to continue to march higher, benefiting from falling rates and decent corporate earnings.
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However, such historical studies as do address this question indicate that all members do not benefit equally.
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Rates start at $ 799 plus airfare; profits benefit animal care at affiliated centers.
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Stocks had benefited from J. P. Morgan&.
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The dams etc may also have been designed to attract industry and so benefit the country in the long term.
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This personalized process aims at releasing human potential in a way that will benefit the corporation.