After three years and three tries, he won benefits.
Only the year-end sums will tell if this wave of fiscal belligerence has won benefits outweighing the costs.
Mr Miliband won, benefiting from the publication of Tony Blair's uncensored memoirs, which contained those memorably unflattering portrayals of Gordon Brown and his acolytes, including Ms Cooper.
He helped lead a strike which won benefits for white workers but not, he was distu rbed to see, for African workers.
She won benefits at a hearing that Talx and Countrywide skipped, but Talx successfully appealed, saying the Countrywide witness had missed the hearing because of a family death.
In a series of victories, the union won benefits like company-paid health and dental care, income assistance for workers who had been laid off, pensions and cost-of-living adjustments.
But would these newly won benefits be enough to propel Santorum into the winners circle in the Palmetto State -- or even goose his chances down the road?
Still, the newly won benefits, such as affordable health care that includes all dependents, are a significant achievement.
Third, those desperate for cash may use more subjective criteria, such as mental illness and "bad back", to try to win benefits.
Mr. Zoellick focused today on helping Europe win benefits in some contested areas that would allow it to claim success at the talks even after compromising on the farm question.
An article in some editions last Monday about an Oscar party in West Orange, N.J., to celebrate "Freeheld," a film that chronicled the struggle of a lesbian Ocean County prosecutor's investigator to win benefits for her partner, misspelled, in some copies, the surname of a partygoer who said she felt "a rush of joy" when "Freeheld" won the Oscar for best documentary short subject.
