Word: benefited
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...year education climbs out of reach for more and more families, the colleges themselves are looking for ways to balance their desire for the best students with their need for paying customers. Depending on your own circumstances and the quality of your child's academic record, you may well benefit from this trend...
...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its new chairman, Julian Bond [DIVIDING LINE, July 27], Jack E. White was very supportive of Bond's leadership. But Bond's devilishly elegant plan of affirmative action is primarily for the black fortunate, the black elite. There is little benefit in it for anyone but a group of handpicked nonwhites and middle-class white women. Bond's affirmative action works best for professionals and those in the middle class. He suggests that the black community can be developed without a preference for its most needy element. This is hardly...
...last year, Lowell, 46, is a Bronx-bred former civil rights attorney who specializes in defending politicians and businessmen. Renowned within the Beltway for his combative manner and impressive trial record, Lowell is particularly skilled at turning legal and ethical problems into matters of mere politics--to the great benefit of his clients. And he has no fear of offending his opponents. Regardie's magazine once declared that Lowell "may well be the most irritating lawyer in Washington...always yipping and nipping in your face...
...that she was worried that what she had to say wouldn't be enough for them. Starr worried about whether she was credible. It was Dash who proposed that Lewinsky come see them, under the Queen for a Day rules that would shield her from self-incrimination. "The main benefit of the meeting," says Cacheris, "was our being able to tell her they were interested in the truth and them telling us she would be protected." Starr proposed meeting at the apartment of his mother-in-law in New York City, and the curtain was ready to rise...
...wide circulation, will make that part of my life a little easier. In an era when men are said to be "from Mars," transgendered people are nearly the only ones who can speak from experience about the different kinds of treatment that men and women receive. Everyone can benefit from transgendered people's insights. RACHEL HOLLOWGRASS Oakland, Calif...