Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aren't these women smiling? Authors Nora Ephron (Crazy Salad), Erica Jong (Fear of Flying) and Francine du Piessix Gray (Lovers and Tyrants) are discussing a serious subject: women, men and money. The occasion: a Washington benefit for the Women's Campaign Fund. Gray argued that being put on a pedestal has sometimes been a severe obstacle to a woman's achieving success. Women, she said, are "the only exploited group in history who have been idealized into powerlessness." Jong agreed. "We successful women feel we are doing something unwomanly by making money," she complained. "When...
...terms of a new law passed by the Israeli Knesset last month, anyone who offers any "material inducement" to an Israeli to change his religion will be liable to a $3,200 fine and five years in prison. And anyone convicted of converting to another faith for nonspiritual benefit may spend three years behind bars. Explaining his country's first antimissionary law, Orthodox Knesset Member Meir Abramowicz, the bill's sponsor, says: "We are the remnant of millions of Jews from the past. We merely want to protect our children." But Israel's 80,000 Christians...
Nevertheless, Harvard clearly believes that some disadvantaged minority students--in addition to those who have the benefit of prep and private school educations, or who come from middle and upper class backgrounds--would make "attractive" candidates--in Young's terms--were they to apply to Harvard. Otherwise, the admissions office presumably would not send student recruiters to high schools in low income areas with predominantly minority student bodies. Yet many of these students will not apply, mainly because they expect their low or mediocre grades and test scores to keep them...
...Horowitz had insisted on the Philadelphia Orchestra's Eugene Ormandy as the conductor; Ormandy had accompanied Rachmaninoff himself in the concerto. Tickets were awesomely priced: $75 for the orchestra, $250 for the first-tier box seats. But just try to find one. And anyway the concert was a benefit and all $168,000 of the gross -Horowitz and Ormandy donated their services-would go into the orchestra's coffers...
...Choate Rosemary in order to interview "post graduates" (students who attend prep schools for one year after graduating from other secondary schools) for whom a fall interview would hold limited value. According to Susan Moriarty, a college guidance counselor at Choate Rosemary, the January trip is "essentially for the benefit of the athletic P.G.s [post-graduates...