Word: benefited
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This approach has led to what is known in the jargon as "functional literacy." The literacy campaign focuses on people who will benefit most from knowing how to read. Schools are established either in growing industrial centers or in areas where new agricultural techniques are being tried...
...part of Haitian history. Since the early 19th century--when Henri Christophe, the country's first black ruler, drove 20,000 slaves to their deaths in the construction of his massive fortress, the Citadel, high in the mountains over Cap Haitien--the government has existed for its own benefit. It simply does not do things for the people. It does not build highways or schools or hospitals; it does not try to improve agricultural methods or encourage industry; it does not give care to the young or the aged. Projects undertaken with AID money lie abandoned...
...novelist as well as the astuteness of the statesman. James Cossins' Gladstone is a subtle creation, the portrait of an un compromising man doing an honest, thankless job for a sovereign who can not abide him. But the play belongs to Miss Tutin. In the final act, without benefit of makeup sorcery, she and Victoria edge into old age. The fatigue of existence enters her voice, slows her step, dims her eyes like a patina. It is an august portrayal of a Queen who is regal without being pompous, naive without being stupid, romantic without being sentimental...
Richler's basic weapon is the mace of reductio ad absurdum, which he wields with skill and ferocity. A publisher compiles a book that documents little acts of kindness shown by the Nazis toward Jews, and holds a benefit dinner for wives and children of deceased concentration-camp guards; a school play casts ten-year-olds in a staging of Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom; a teacher encourages the academic achievement of her boy students by rewarding them in an entirely extracurricular manner; a nun appearing on a Joe Pyne-style TV insult program is publicly reduced...
Just because Harvard refuses to take stands as an institution does not mean that it is neutral. It has over $600 million invested in stocks, much of that in large corporations that benefit from the war. No one is asking the University to unload the stocks and buy something neutral, like Swiss Savings Bonds. But the first step is to force the University to realize that it is contributing to this war, whether it can help...