The primary benefit cited for the SAT is that it provides a common national yardstick.
But Senate Republicans have blocked efforts to continue those extra benefits, citing concerns over the deficit.
Everyone I met preached this sport's benefits, citing studies that it promoted physical and mental health.
In November, the Central States plan reduced benefits, citing several years of investment losses and the inability of small, marginally profitable trucking companies to make pension contributions.
While each circumstance is different, orchestras' managements are generally trying to reduce salaries or hold the line on raises and cut the costs of benefits, citing a dip in donations and lower yield from endowments because of the recession.
After Mr. Harrison appeared at an investor's event hosted by Mr. Ackman, Canadian National canceled its former chief executive's $1.5 million annual pension payment and other benefits, citing a noncompete clause.
But, in deference to reality, the President spent a few moments discussing the economic benefits, citing the usual list of innovations that we owe to nasa and promising that his plan would lead to a new generation of "technological breakthroughs".
The Social Market Foundation's Sink or Swim report focuses on the already contentious area of whether a decision to pay claimants their benefits monthly instead of fortnightly will complicate life for those on very low incomes, and concludes that most households oppose the move to monthly benefits, citing fears that they will run out of money at the end of the month.
But he said the current set-up - where civil servants work on behalf of different governments - worked well and continuity brought great benefits, citing the example of senior Treasury official Michael Ellam who has worked for Ken Clarke, Gordon Brown and George Osborne.
The story came out that executives were doing so while buttressing their own pay and benefits, citing the old excuse about needing to keep executives from deserting the (sinking) ship.
