Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faculty members cite the "intellectual ferment" sweeping the campus as proof that Jiang's visit will benefit Harvard...
...Halloween party this year, we should not let Jiang pass off in the same disguise. Let's call Jiang and the officials in his regime the vampires that they are: a new elite class of mandarins (bureaucrats) who benefit from the exploition of their fellow citizens. For whatever gains China has made economically during the last decade have neither trickled down nor translated into political liberalization...
...this makes it possible for select Chinese characters who speak English to be used strategically to provide welcome patches of unmitigated understanding. Indeed, many of the key courtroom speeches, ones which illuminate crucial logical points or make important statements of protocol, are spoken in English for the benefit of both Moore and the audience. These islands of comprehension do not seem out of place, but rather achieve an almost subliminal elevation of importance and lucidity in the mind of the audience...
...asking students to examine their lives, she made the point that even those who do not overtly act in a hateful way may benefit from institutional racism...
...Says TIME?s South Africa correspondent Peter Hawthorne: "It?s almost certain that privately Mandela was giving Gadhafi the benefit of his experiences at the Commonwealth meeting...