Word: benefiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obscene high-mindedness to limit actions against apartheid for fear of tainting an undergraduate legislative body with vulgar politicking. If there is a political faction that stands to benefit by a yes vote on question 2, this is as it should be. Why should anyone--particularly Harvard's decision makers--care about this "poll" if the Council itself ought not to act on it? Should student government poll students for their opinion only to deliberately ignore...
What is puzzling about this whole affair is why the University has rushed ahead with the internship program and made such foolish mistakes in the process. One would like to give the program's organizers the benefit of the doubt. They didn't really intend a social service program for South Africa's elite white business class, did they? And why would they want to aid in the illegal occupation and economic exploitation of Namibia? But if their intentions were not evil, how could they have been so naive as to embark on the present program...
Last week NWA Inc., the parent company of Northwest Orient Airlines, agreed to buy Republic Airlines for $884 million. The combination of the two carriers, both based in Minneapolis, is a good fit. Primarily a long-haul operator, Northwest would benefit from adding Republic's shorter Midwestern and Southeastern routes. If approved by the companies' shareholders and the Department of Justice, the deal would create the fifth-largest U.S. airline in terms of passengers, behind United, Eastern, Delta and American...
...benefit concert for 350 workers who are losing their jobs at the 3M plant in Freehold, N.J., promised ten bands for $5. But everyone got more than they bargained for when Bruce Springsteen and members of his E Street Band made a surprise appearance at the Stone Pony, the Asbury Park club where the Boss played in early days. "Remember what we're doing this for," Springsteen told the stunned audience of 500, before breaking into My Hometown, a song about a textile-plant closing in Freehold. Said Springsteen, who was born there and lives in nearby Rumson: "The marriage...
...blacks. But last week, dear God, Walker, 41, was triumphantly downstairs. The Pex literally put out the red carpet for the Pulitzer prizewinning writer, who used her hometown as the inspiration for her best-selling novel The Color Purple. Much of Eatonton (pop. 4,800) turned out for a benefit screening of the film based on her book. "I think of this movie as a gift to you," Walker told the audience of friends and family. "You've shown some very beautiful values to the world. And you've done so under incredible conditions of strain and stress...