Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasion of the third anniversary of the Polytechnic revolt, we thought it useful to assess its significance for the benefit of our fellow students in the U.S. Their own courageous struggles of the '60s and early '70s were a factor in ending the criminal war against the people of Vietnam. As a new administration is preparing to take over in Washington next January, we hope that American students will continue their efforts to ensure that promises of non-intervention and respect for the rights of foreign peoples are kept...
Wilson deals with the problem like a political scientist: through a cost-benefit analysis of the criminal's "decision to become involved in crime." He presumes that the criminal is rational enough to weigh the potential costs of an illegal act and will base his actions on the risk he is willing to take. Not surprisingly, his belief in the rational criminal leads Wilson to the idea of raising the cost relative to the benefit. When the criminal sees that an illegal act is too risky, Wilson reasons, he will restrain from the illicit activity...
...amoral than those of the wealthiest suburbs with high degrees of "community." Street hoods are merely society's biggest losers, with neither the polish nor position to be respectable white collar criminals. They are intellectually, psychologically and economically vulnerable and frustrated. A housebreaker does not rationally compute the cost-benefit analysis of a robbery in the same terms as his more successful middle class counterpart. Even Wilson admits that "burglaries are committed by unskilled persons who often act opportunistically rather than by careful plan...
...only in Turkey but in all countries that are friends and allies of the U.S., doubts as to the reliability of American commitments. It would seem to us that the restoration of mutual confidence, which has prevailed for so long in the relations of the two countries to the benefit of both, will also contribute to dispelling in the minds of their friends doubts about America's credibility as the leader of an alliance, on the cohesion and strength of which rest the hopes for peace and continuing détente in the world...
...would not be difficult to reinstitute rotational assignment. We urge CHUL to reconsider its policy today, and to implement former weekend meal plans, whereby freshmen rotate from House to House on a monthly basis. We feel that such a change would greatly benefit all Harvard undergraduates. Lorrie Goldin '77 Secretary, Lowell House Committee James Berkman Chairman, Lowell House Committee