Word: benefiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Both benefit: Shlink tempers his mean spirit and grows more humane and Garga gets power he never before had. And both lose: Shlink forfeits his company and is faced full force with the prospect of growing old while Garga defies his family and his class...
...talents lie in things that are public," said Epps, who added that he would continue his efforts to improve student-faculty contact. "I hope to use my experience to the benefit of undergraduates--the people whom I think are one of the most important groups at Harvard...
...judge from the kiss, they like wedded bliss. In fact Charles and Diana were osculating all over the British tabloids last week. The princess awarded her prince a relieved smack when he led his polo team to victory at a benefit match after his horse stumbled and nearly landed on top of him. The next day he lost, but fair maiden rewarded him nonetheless. As Britons sighed over their still astonishingly golden couple, someone did happen to notice a diamond ring given to Diana by Louis Gerard, a Paris jeweler who sponsored the polo benefit on behalf of Birthright...
...public criticized the media's coverage of the episode, but it also watched attentively. Without the benefit of instant ratings, television knew what the public wanted and what it had to deliver. Was it successful? Fifty-seven percent of the sample in a WCVB-TV (Ch. 5) poll said the media devoted too much attention to the story; they were watching a WCVB broadcast about the crisis at the time...
...neighbor slipped a note under the door asking her not to play so loudly. Winner of the International Chopin Competition, faculty member at the Moscow Conservatory, Deserving Artist of the Soviet Union, Davidovich was unknown to her new neighbors. Her nonpolitical departure from the U.S.S.R. had occurred without benefit of an international incident and the subsequent career-boosting headlines. Adding injury to insult, Davidovich had been mugged just after her arrival in New York City; unfamiliar with such American customs, she had resisted so fiercely that she required surgery to repair damage to her knees...