11.   Analysts said the latest plan appeared to offer few benefits for shareholders and failed to spark a buying spree among investors .

12.   And how can it not mean that when the nation lacks a mechanism for talking about cost, let alone rejecting coverage of expensive treatments that offer meager benefits?

13.   And its recent decision to offer spousal benefits to the partners of gay employees provoked conservative boycotts and denunciations.

14.   And the fact is that the act, for all its shortcomings, still offers benefits to unions, management and consumers.

15.   And that money would go to a system that offers fewer benefits.

16.   Around the country, growing numbers of trainers are offering the benefits of one-on-one fitness to small groups of people who would prefer to sweat together.

17.   As a result, party loyalties are being abandoned and Asian-Americans are looking to candidates who appear to offer specific benefits to their community.

18.   As a result, party loyalties are being abandoned and Asian-Americans are looking to candidates who appear to offer benefits to their community.

19.   Atlanta withstood a court challenge to offer domestic partner benefits to its public employees.

20.   At the same time, a new study finds that Hispanic workers are disproportionately concentrated in low-wage jobs that offer few benefits.