Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past, any sizeable grant to a publicservice group like PBH would have been unlikelybecause of a more limitted council budget and thefinance committee's strict interpretation of arule that groups receiving money provide a serviceof direct benefit to the Harvard community...
Puhak said earlier this week that the promoter had told her not to worry about a concert contract because the performance was a benefit...
...would never have a benefit concert withouta contract," said Werlin. "Bragg just had abenefit concert in Burlington, Vermont with acontract. I can't speak for all benefits, but it'ssomething we would never...
...without going into detail about the web of financial transactions which makes such staggering deals possible, one point should be made: while stockholders benefit from lucrative buy-out offers for their stock (the largest shareholders usually being company directors), and while buyers make huge amounts of money by breaking up acquired companies and selling them piece by piece or strengthening them before reselling the whole, all the billions of dollars spent, invested and earned in this matter do not go directly to any economic production...
HARVARD students benefit from and contribute to a $4 billion institution which, while perhaps trying to do the right thing, often can't predict what that thing is; or, when it believes it knows, finds that overlooked details can suddenly pose ethical or practical problems...