21.   Back then, few companies offered domestic partner benefits or were even remotely interested in recruiting lesbians and gays.

22.   Besides the monetary gains, properly insulated homes offer health benefits and enhance comfort.

23.   Beyond savings on child care, such arrangements offer intangible benefits.

24.   Biotechnology also offers potential benefits, such as developing more nutritious foods to ward off starvation and disease.

25.   Both drugs offered similar benefit in lowering blood pressure.

26.   -- Check with your employer, who might offer benefits for bike commuters.

27.   A patient also may opt against extraordinary procedures to preserve his life, if those procedures offer no reasonable benefit or excessively burden his family.

28.   A quarter of the firms offer no benefits, it added.

29.   About half of the firms who are offering the benefits did so within the last two years.

30.   Adults who leave welfare often get low-wage jobs in small businesses, the type of employment least likely to offer health benefits.