Word: benefited
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DINING OPTIONS: Students in Palo Alto benefit from a flexible meal plan system, allowing them to purchase either 19, 14 or 12 meals per week. The Stanford meal plan also features a point system known as Cardinal Cash, and allows students to operate on a declining balance through the trimester...
...cheap pasteboard revivalism of Postmodernist historical quotation going to revive a sense of grandeur. Moreover, with the exception of various memorials, and of such projects as Richard Meier's six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles (to be completed later this year), the level of grand commissions for public benefit flattened...
...some ways, this attention to tradition is positive; with the survival of Adams House's character, for example, a good institution thrives and many students benefit. Furthermore, Harvard University, by perpetuating its traditions, continues to be an institution that contributes to world progress. However, there are trade-offs, and Harvard institutions do not always respect that they are the sum of their parts; that is, the students who make up the institution are the important thing, not simply the viability of the institution itself...
Under a law barring criminals from making money from their crimes, Mafia snitch Sammy ("the Bull") Gravano shouldn't benefit from his work with author Peter Maas on a book about life in the Mob. Publisher HarperCollins says he was not paid, but one victim's daughter thinks that's bull. Last week Laura Garofalo sued Gravano for wrongful-death damages to the tune of $50 million...
...provide them company in the loneliness of being human." At the same time, intense fame scares him: "It can't be true and it can't be sustained," he says. Over the years, Taylor has acquired a reputation for moral integrity, and as a result, he is flooded with benefit requests from politicians and causes. He remains proudly political, "a lefty like my pop," a genteel North Carolina physician who was an Adlai Stevenson Democrat and a strong advocate for socialized medicine. The doctor's son is appalled to think of the market as the answer to America's problems...