Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bragg helped form Red Wedge, a loose coalition of various music-makers and comics that has toured Great Britain in support of the Labour Party. Along with groups like the Housemartins, Style Council and the Blow Monkeys, Bragg traveled in the Red Wedge Battle Bus doing benefit shows, press conferences and general rabble-rousing in order to stir up the youth vote. Not quite the entourage of your typical rock star...
...TIME's editors, one benefit of the program is the opportunity to hear fresh views on the magazine's operation. Says Leah Shanks Gordon, administrative editor and the interns' supervisor: "Sometimes what they say is bruising, but the interns' presence gives us an opportunity to hear from some very bright people. We learn a lot from them." And we hope they too learn a lot from their experience...
...much as America needs foreign capital at the moment, the U.S. might benefit more in the long run if the European nations increase domestic investment and build up their economies. Only a healthy Europe can boost its imports and thus help the U.S. curb its dangerous trade deficit...
Long ago, Leo Durocher said that nice guys finish last. Baseball players are finally taking his advice. Pitchers who play a little chin music no longer receive the benefit of the doubt. Throwing the high hard stuff inside is tantamount to a declaration of war, and retaliation by the batter follows shortly...
Madonna gives a concert that raises $400,000 for AIDS research. The same night, friends of Playwright Charles Ludlam, dead at 44, pay tribute to the "funniest man in America." AIDS has decimated the artistic community. Now artists are fighting back. They write AIDS plays and songs, give benefit concerts and, for those with the disease, face the future with grit and gallantry...