When one person gets vaccinated, the population at large benefits, because that vaccine thereby reduces the infectivity of the virus.
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Development in urban centers provides especially large benefits, and is especially constrained.
One is a sort of pathological conservatism, where people forgo even feasible things with potentially large benefits for fear of losing the little they already possess.
By keeping the company intact, the private-equity owners are able to fix the problems, and by preserving the employees, the customers and the business, society at large benefits.
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These drugs provide large benefits--reducing cholesterol by 40% or more.
Big Data, in turn, will yield large economic benefits, from medical research to retail.
Poor countries can reap large economic benefits from opening their markets to each other.
When they die, companies often have to pay large death benefits to their families.
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Turkish entry would also bring large strategic benefits, helping to defuse tensions between the West and the Islamic world.
He has significant changes to the tax code that would provide large tax benefits to upper-income households, while shifting the burden onto middle and lower-income households.
The key to helping grow the world economy will lie in creating environments that foster the growth of new successful companies that generate large social benefits.
It would also offer large environmental benefits because gas emits few conventional pollutants, and only about half as much carbon dioxide as the main transitional alternative: continued coal burning.
Ironically, it is precisely because long-chain omega-3s offer such large health benefits that scientists feel that they are obliged to stand up and challenge the authority, for this is a decision that could affect the health of a generation.
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On the previous occasion that this exercise was conducted, in the run-up to the 1994 election, the bureau projected that the Christian Democrats would have to make large cuts in welfare benefits to fulfil their promises of large tax cuts.
Beyond that, the strain of being large overcomes the benefits of a longer stride, says Dr MacNulty.
Pickings are getting slimmer since 40% of large companies now offer benefits to unmarried live-in couples.
The improved American economy of the late 1940s, however, seems to illustrate the benefits of large-scale government stimulus.
Wachovia already does a big business providing commercial insurance brokerage and employee benefits to large corporate and middle-market companies.
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As much as it saves money and creates efficiency for large business, the benefits for small businesses are and will be much greater.
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Republican opposition to spending is simply opposition to Democratic spending priorities, not to spending that benefits a large segment of the GOP base.
Americans' growing enthusiasm for tea can be explained in large part by its health benefits.
But a related Abbott drug, TriCor, failed to prove its benefits in a large randomized controlled clinical trial.
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Using the bankruptcy law to threaten rejection of its labor contracts, United forced the unions in 2003 to accept large cuts in wages and benefits.
Productivity is still delivering an increased standard of living, albeit with big gaps in who gets the benefits and a large hole at the bottom.
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Ms. Scheiner espouses the economic benefits to the large, national employers she is looking to target: She says individuals with Asperger's tend to be loyal employees and focused.
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And a large chunk of those purported benefits rest on the assumption that businessmen are unproductive while in transit, which seems questionable in an age of laptops and mobile broadband.
They have their benefits provided by large and medium-sized employers and administered by health plans that include UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Humana (HUM), Aetna (AET), Cigna (CI) and Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans.
"Given the very significant return that the Australian economy is getting from the region and the benefits that a large portion of the population are receiving, in my view this should be a whole-of-Australia problem, " he says.
PERS, with 1.2m members, and the Pacific Business Group on Health, an alliance of 45 large employers that buys health benefits for 3m people, demanded, and for four years up to 1998 won, successive reductions in premiums.
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