Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...image of the collegiate fraternity you produced was one that faded in the 1960s; the modern fraternity is a group of men working as a close group to benefit both themselves and the community in which they live...
...Crisis. Chirac cannot go too far in opposing Giscard without triggering a confrontation that would only weaken the government majority and benefit the left. Moreover, much of the pending legislation in the Assembly was hatched while Chirac was still Premier; this blunts any credible Gaullist opposition to these measures. But the Gaullists will stay arms-length from the President from now on. They may oppose direct elections to a European parliament and object to ratifying the International Monetary Fund accords reached last January in Jamaica, an agreement they view as symptomatic of Giscard's shift to supranationalism. Beyond these...
...still highly experimental. No one can tell what, if any, long-term damage may result from the use of high-energy neutrons. Furthermore, neutron treatment is suitable for only a small fraction of cancer patients. Says Cohen: "Only 15% of patients now being treated with conventional radiation could benefit from neutron therapy. There has to be a localized cancer of a specific type." But in these cases, neutron irradiation seems to provide hope where there was little or none before. So, asks Cohen...
...special recruiting campaign pushed the number of black applicants to the Med School up 20 percent above last year's total, but the number of mainland Puerto Rican and Native American applicants sunk 40 and 50 per cent, respectively. They did not benefit from a special campaign...
Military ventures get a similar cost-benefit analysis. A Rand researcher in 1973 suggested that efficiency could be determined by defining military output in terms of "the capability to destroy 1000 tanks in a 90-day Central European war scenario, or the capability to deliver a given amount of bomb tonnage in Southeast Asia." His formulas did not include significant variables representing such factors as a ravaged European countryside or a decimated village in Vietnam...