Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sure, it's more time," Steed said. "But also the hope is that it's more benefit...
Rational choice, which grew out of the study of economics in the 1970s, works under the assumption that people only act in ways that benefit them. Rational choice scholars collect large pools of data and attempt to write mathematical models that will predict how government works...
...Republic cites, for example, the method's famous inability to account for why any modern Americans would actually bother to vote, since logic would tell them their vote has no impact and doesn't benefit them...
...close, scientists have an unthinkable command over the human genome. Years of intense study have made it possible for us to identify the genetic bases for diseases once thought incurable. Already, genetic tests for some 490 diseases are available. Effort applied to research is finally translating into practical benefit for individuals...
...blindfolded matron holding aloft a set of balanced scales. She, or more likely he, is often peeking and open to tempting offers. "The bribery of judges is eternal," Turow gently instructs us. "At common law, before there were statutes and codes, the word 'bribe' meant only this: a benefit conferred to influence a judge...