Word: benefited
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...athletes themselves would benefit from the broadening and challenging new experiences possible. Playing Tufts and Brown beefs up the record and improves chances for post-season honors, but those games supply very little athletic reward...
Lansana did not last much longer than the man he deposed. At week's end a group of dissident officers staged a countercoup, arrested both Lansana and the man who stood to benefit most from his annulment of the elections-Sir Albert Margai-and locked them up with the Governor General and the victorious opposition leader. Then, with the nation's four most powerful politicians out of the way, they named an eight-man "National Reformation Council" to run the country. Headed by 39-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, who was deputy army commander until...
Senior Common rooms are essentially associations of faculty members who have an interest in undergraduates; hence appropriate topics for discussion and comment by them include any issues which affect undergraduates. The participation of Harvard students in a selective service system through which they benefit from an inequitable distribution of the burden of military service is certainly an issue. It is not, of course, a typical topic for discussion in senior common rooms (as is, for example, the propriety of mini-skirts in house dining halls). Our hope in discussing the issue of deferments and passing the resolution was to suggest...
...benefit we may have had from being outside before has been lost because of the freeze-up: It's tantamount to starting all over again," says Parker...
Viola's attorney insisted that by buying stock for the benefit of others, she was merely "a good friend doing a good turn." Indeed, aside from a relatively small chunk of Golden Arrow stock that her husband sold at the bloated price, there was no testimony indicating that the MacMillans enriched themselves from the 1964 transactions. But York County Court Judge Garth Moore pointed out that Viola had called her broker to check on the market price of Golden Arrow after placing her orders-a move that helped convince the judge she had intended to stimulate her company...