Word: benefitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston in the way of services. Estimates place more than half of Boston's land in the tax-exempt category, so any burden Harvard places on the city must now be borne by increased taxes falling heavily on working class homeowners and renters within the city limits. Those who benefit most from Harvard's activities in Boston--affiliates like the faculty of the Medical School--live in the suburbs beyond the reach of the city's taxing power...
...would not only win handily but substantially increase their 121-seat majority in the 171-member Parliament. The liberal opposition parties, which gain most of their support from South Africa's English-speaking whites, are riven with angry feuds. Both they and the neglected minorities who would supposedly benefit under the new constitution are opposed to it, but they have little chance of thwarting John Vorster's will...
Clemens points out ruefully, "I personally recruited 18 of those kids on the Colgate roster and to be perfectly honest, someone else is getting the benefit...
...defensive backfield, without the benefit of a single returning starter, has held up so far. But Columbia's quarterback couldn't throw well enough to provide a real test and UMass found it necessary to pass only four times...
...these sessions, light heavyweight Cookie Wallace provided an imitation of Ali that resulted in Wallace sacrificing his upper mandible for Shavers's benefit. Wallace taunted Shavers, a la Ali, and stuck his face out to receive Shavers's blows in a crude and masochistic simulation of Ali's "rope-a-dope" technique...