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"Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating."
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"The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering."
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"A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that."
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"I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality."
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"Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks."
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"The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor."
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"Whatever I have not yet learned to tolerate in myself inevitably will appear in my children. In this way, they, like Julia, guide me to a new level of self-awareness and everyone benefits."
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"What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path."
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"Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties."
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"Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it."
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"The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor."
Benefit
"Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation."
Health
"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
Conviction
"Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries."
Nation
"Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary."
Adventure
"We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest."
Hope
"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."
Reality
"You can change friends but not neighbours."
Friendship
"The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries."
Perception
"In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere."
War
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