Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what happened to the first three-but what ever became of Joe Alioto?" Among other things, he grew up to be mayor of San Francisco. Now he was before the San Francisco Symphony, telling jokes on himself and preparing to lead the orchestra through the opening number of a benefit performance. The mayor, who still practices his violin at home, did so well the orchestra members gave him a resounding wave of applause...
...well managed, but more than half of its profits depended on roulette and craps tables. It had a call on about $93 million worth of Pan Am stock, while its own net worth was only $6,000,000. Pan Am's Gray could find "nothing of benefit" in an affiliation with Crosby...
...zone, if necessary. The stakes are worth it; today a superstar like Simpson is not merely an athlete but a corporation. Last month, Barnes opened negotiations with the Buffalo Bills, the team that drafted Simpson, by demanding a three-year $600,000 contract, plus "a very substantial fringe benefit"-most probably a cut of the team's profits. Barnes, cried Bills Owner Ralph Wilson, "wants more money for Simpson than Buffalo netted in its last three years of operation...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Combined Charities Drive begins today. It will benefit causes ranging from black community action to Ethiopian literacy...
...review their present grading practices and curricular requirements in consultation with individual graduate students and groups of graduate students. Certain departments are already so engaged. Even if a department finds that nothing in its present practices needs to be changed, such a review--we know--would have the enormous benefit of explaining and even demonstrating to the graduate students why the present practices are useful, even valuable to them. We think, however, that it may be possible in many cases to minimize routine requirements, to cut down letter-grading, to accompany all necessary letter-grading by careful explanations...