Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iraq Petroleum Co. to give him a 50-50 profit split such as Venezuela and Saudi Arabia enjoyed. He had already set up the nonpolitical Development Board, and awarded it 70% of all state oil revenues, so that the whole nation, not just a few wealthy princes, would benefit. The board set out to recreate in the Valley of the Two Rivers the verdant paradise that existed before the marauding Mongols of Hulagu Khan in 1258 wrecked the ancient irrigation system and dried up the Garden of Eden...
Several advantages of a total submersion of Radcliffe into the larger University have been suggested. Foremost is that the greater financial resources of Harvard would benefit women students on an equal basis with men. A classics professor has pointed out that it is often more difficult for a top-ranking Radcliffe student to get a graduate scholarship because of the Annex's more limited funds...
...University seemed to have no such explicit assurance. Nobody was willing to say that requirements worked for the benefit of those subjected to them, and yet nobody was willing to abolish them. Everybody agreed in theory that all students had unique needs and that no system could possibly do these individuals justice. And yet with monotonous regularity the abolition of one unsatisfactory system was succeeded by the installation of another, which in turn was abolished when it too failed to achieve the undefined end, "the liberal education...
...dinner for 57?: "You give everybody a $5 monthly raise, and in six months they've all forgotten about it. But they eat here every day and they don't forget." Many unions, which once frowned on plant cafeteria programs as unwanted paternalism, now realize that they benefit workers; some even demand a lunch program in the contract as a fringe benefit...
More surprising, at a critical juncture in Washington's debate over foreign aid, was the skepticism on the question of U.S. military and economic assistance in countries that reap only benefit from such programs. To the independent Times of India, the riots were "one more illustration of the truth that dollars can ensure neither appreciation nor loyalty." Said the Times of Indonesia: "Having succeeded to the imperial purple so long worn by the British, the United States today has also inherited its concomitant-resentment, envy, and the readiness of others to take offense at the drop...