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  • But the benefit's brochure asked the youngsters a question: "If you wrote an opera, what would it be about?"

    Opera for the Under-10 Set Marshall Heyman 2011

  • And if you think a benefit's going to last for 16 months, you don't count it.

    Consider Yourself Warrened 2011

  • E.g. if you go to the SSA web site you will find its actuaries describing the SS retirement benefit as a "defined benefit pension plan", and if you go into the historical section you will find discussions of how the pension benefit's funding moved from insurance basis -- as commercial insurers fund pensions -- in the early days, to paygo.

    Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • With 15 minutes to curtains up, two dressing rooms were crammed with artists in various states of undress applying eyelashes and negotiating their tech needs with performer/producer Rita MenWeep, the benefit's chief organizer.

    Disrobing for Charity Lizzie Simon 2011

  • The Special Olympics benefit's theme was that we as a nation and as a world should highlight others' abilities instead of focusing on disabilities -- to show what you can do, instead of being told what you can't do.

    Lonna Saunders: Best I Can: The Special Olympics Benefit Lonna Saunders 2010

  • The Special Olympics benefit's theme was that we as a nation and as a world should highlight others' abilities instead of focusing on disabilities -- to show what you can do, instead of being told what you can't do.

    Lonna Saunders: Best I Can: The Special Olympics Benefit Lonna Saunders 2010

  • It's okay to break the rules when it benefit's you?

    Preston: Top Clinton supporters ready to help Obama 2008

  • Even with a deceptively low estimate of the drug benefit's cost, there were still a few Republicans in the House of Representatives who wouldn't roll over and play dead just to buy re-election.

    Republican Deficit Hypocrisy 2009

  • The benefit's of hunting bears over bait is this, the bear is around longer and you have longer to determine if it is a boar or not.

    An 18-Year Bear Hunt 2007

  • The ratio of "potential chosen" to "necessarily heathens" offers us a measure of this hypothetical benefit's plausibility ... which is not very high for your Christianity, one would have to say.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO Hal Duncan 2007

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