Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Costly Dump. Many Vermonters would not mind seeing him-and about 100 other developers in Windham County-leave tomorrow. True, the real estate men have helped to create a broadened tax base and a lot of construction activity that will doubtless benefit the state's economy. But they have also trapped the county's towns of Stratton, Wilmington, Dover, Winhall and Guilford in a vicious cycle that might make a hardened Yankee farmer weep...
...restricts this function too narrowly. In propagating learning, the university also asserts allegiance to a set of universal ideas which aim to benefit all mankind. If this allegiance conflicts with the specific goals of a particular society, political tension naturally results between the university and society. To take the obvious example: the university (radicals and college presidents together) is usually regarded by the Nixon Administration as the focus of domestic opposition to the Vietnam War. This opposition has had some effect in reshaping policy and seems worth maintaining...
...higher education. He clearly prefers an impoverished, modest Little Ivy to the lavishly financed modern institutions. Expansion will intensify, nevertheless, as government continues to pay more of the cost. In that event, it would be wiser to plan even more welfare activities and applied research projects for the benefit of urban neighbors. "The social wrongs that may be committed by the university." Professor Hughes protests, "are not to be corrected by turning it into a social service institution." Though social service is not now a function of the university, it will sooner or later be accepted as a legitimate...
Yovicsin will be forced to prepare for the Crimson's opener without the benefit of game films of the new Crusaler system. He is faced with the difficult task of seasoning a new defensive backfield-with newcomers Fred Martucci and Dave Ignacio at safety and corner-in a week's time...
...first of a series of jobs in industry that he periodically quit to study acting or travel in Europe or try to break into show business. In November 1965, just before he resigned as producer and business manager of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, he staged a benefit party that brought together poets, actors, and some of the pioneers of the big new sound called rock. It was a huge success and showed him what he could do. "It was the first time all those people met," says Graham. "Ferlinghetti, the Fugs, the Jefferson Airplane, Peter Orlovsky...