Word: benefiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First of all, I don't accept your premise. There is skepticism about the press just as there is skepticism about lawyers, politicians, even some members of the clergy. We are a better educated people today. We have the benefit of all manner of muckraking available to us. We are as partisan today as we have been in recent history, but at the same time, what's the most popular broadcast on the air? The evening news...
...Nicaraguans be doing? Just watching and, if all goes according to Washington's script, perhaps shuddering a bit at the display of U.S. force near their border. Those tanks, for instance, were manned by soldiers of the Texas National Guard, playing the role of invading Sandinistas for the benefit of Honduran pilots, who carried out mock bombing and strafing runs against them (see box). Officially, the maneuvers are not even war games, just joint "training exercises." Pentagon officials go so far as to insist, with resolutely straight faces, that last week's "tank battle" and next week's amphibious landing...
...most of the gains in speed and effectiveness of learning often attributed to computer-assisted learning. It is not necessarily the machines that produce these gains. More likely, the improvements occur because of the increased time and thought that enter into creating the program. Either way students stand to benefit from the result...
...stated that "Harvard will encourage all banks with which it does business to make humanitarian loans...Harvard will encourage foreign banks which have supplied the bulk of South Africa's credit needs in recent years to make humanitarian loans...the contemplated change offers greater hope of spurring expenditures that benefit non-white South Africans than does the current policy." (Harvard Gazette...
Although Arafat has changed for the better over the years, this does not excuse Carter's proclivity to give him the benefit of the doubt. It also reveals Carter's tendency to understate the fact that the assassination of two moderate Arab leaders has reduced Israel's faith in the durability of any potential peace agreement. The Killing of Sasat, like the murder of Jordan's King Abdullah in the early 1950's, has left a deep impression on Israelis of all political stripes, an impression Carter ignores in the book...