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public welfare





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That, they argued, would boost public welfare by cutting pollution and reducing highway congestion and accidents.

From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025

In July 1945, he published a report to the president titled “Science: The Endless Frontier,” writing that “scientific progress is essential” to promote national security and public welfare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025

Under Japan's Religious Corporations Law, a religious order can be dissolved if its actions are "clearly recognised as being substantially detrimental to public welfare".

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2023

Drawing attention to these problems will ensure that patents and safety regulations do not become tools that powerful firms can anticompetitively exploit, but instead serve their intended purposes of enhancing public welfare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2022

The caller, not to be repulsed, wrote on a piece of paper that he must see Mr. Lincoln personally, on a matter of vital and pressing importance to the public welfare.

From Famous Men of Science by Sarah K. Bolton




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