One fringebenefit: Security guards who open laptops for inspection for every passenger now waive the tiny OQOs right through--since they consider them personal digital assistants.
Weakening, if not removing, such counterweights to Foggy Bottom's influence and agenda would have been a fringebenefit arising from the Deputy Secretary's lack of transparency.
For instance, research-intensive universities might benefit most from a hybrid of renewable long-term contracts and fringebenefit trade-offs, whereas it may be most efficient for teaching colleges to utilize a combination of contingent faculty and renewable contracts.
Parera commended Mukherjee for sticking to the deadline of introducing a uniform goods and services tax by April 2010 and abolishing certain direct taxes--the fringebenefit tax, the commodities trading tax and the 10% surcharge on income tax.
Far right parties are among the fringe groups expected to benefit from voters' disillusionment with the two biggest parties' backing for austerity measures.