Word: benefit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long run," she said, "it will benefit institutions in the Ivy League and other sports." If less scholarship money were offered to students, more of them would consider other schools such as Harvard which do not offer athletic scholarships...
...plenty of money. Although its new convention hall is not yet completed, Developer Joe Russo offered to take out a $5 million policy with Lloyd's of London payable to the D.N.C. if the hall is not finished on time. The city also promised to arrange a Leonard Bernstein benefit concert for the convention, but members seemed just as impressed with another cultural landmark -- they kept buses and motorcades waiting half an hour while they shopped at Neiman-Marcus...
...bars and restaurants will stay open through July to benefit from the extra business at Harvard's Commencement, Kluger said...
...enterprise. It's predators on the loose," declared Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, perhaps the most outspoken critic of corporate raiding. Observers began to describe the era as a time of paper entrepreneurship, in which a lot of stock and money changes hands but no real work gets done to benefit the economy. "In America, industry has become the plaything of finance," said Robert Reich, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government...
...grim reign of Adolf Hitler in Europe had one ironic benefit for the U.S. Among the emigres, mostly Jewish, who fled to these shores to escape him were designers, filmmakers and composers who would sound a new note in the American arts, one that kept ringing long after the war ended -- names like Mies van der Rohe, Billy Wilder and Arnold Schoenberg. Alfred Eisenstaedt was among them. When he set down in New York City in 1935, Eisenstaedt, "Eisie" to his friends, brought with him a loose-limbed working method that would eventually set the tone for all of American...