Word: benefited
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Words & Action. As for Nehru, his painful education was continuing. As he rejected phony Peking suggestions of "compromise" and cease-fire that would only benefit the aggressors, he complained: "Everyone is advising us to be good and peaceful." It was the kind of advice he himself had been handing out in every international crisis created by Red aggression. He still regretted that China was not in the U.N., refused fully to equate "Communism" with China's aggression, and insisted that India was still nonaligned. U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Galbraith soothingly agreed, explained that Western arms aid did not mean that...
...have an item, say, a quick sketch by Mary Cassatt, for as little as $100; from there the prices soar up to six figures. As an exhibition hall, the gallery has led a double life. On its fifth floor it has put on an average of five benefit shows a year that were of museum caliber; this week an exhibition called "The Painter as Historian" will display a number of masterpieces never shown in public before...
William J. Graham, a law school student and president of the Harvard chapter of YAF, said that he is not sure that America should not carry on some trade with Communist countries. "There can be some benefit in keeping open avenues of exchange between us and our enemies," he said...
...said of Nixon, "He was responding to a situation in this country, an ugly period, an ugly time, and riding it rather than actually creating it, I think. If it hadn't been Mr. Nixon, perhaps someone else would have tried to jump into the same situation and benefit by it." But all this should lead not to a single condemnation of Richard Nixon, but to questioning the American Dream when it relates to politics...
...bold move that would have excited the imagination of Homer, though he might be hard put to make poetry out of it, Greece wheeled its fragile economy into Europe's Common Market last week. As the first associate member, Greece will benefit from the Market's present 50% tariff reduction for insiders and has been given twelve to 22 years to lower its own tariffs to zero-the near-term goal of the other six nations. This is a special dispensation to give Greece time to shape its inadequate, overprotected and disorganized industries to compete in Western Europe...