Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, many Crimson teams will benefit from the contributions of non-recruits and walk-ons--not to mention the two-sport athletes recruited for other squads...
...committee turned down a more radical proposal--calling for wider playing arenas--because Harvard's field could not be widened without destroying football's new temple. The alternative: keeping fields narrow, but legalizing the forward pass for the benefit of struggling offenses...
...ruling on capital punishment, Brennan said, the court sometimes goes too far in trying to discern the intentions of the Constitution's 18th-century framers. He said the court should more actively interpret the law to bring about effects that benefit society...
Still, his local following is intensely loyal, sponsoring raffles and fashion shows to benefit WVCA and sending in a steady trickle of contributions, which are not tax deductible. One listener shrugs off the work- sex slur, saying "Some people do both." Another says Geller has given so much to Gloucester he's entitled to knock...
Some of the effects are startling. In Partisans the dancers impersonate wartime equestrian irregulars, without benefit of horses. In At the Skating Rink they gambol and glide along imaginary ice in a skaters' waltz of rare beauty. Typically, the narrative is minimal, the political content low; for the Moiseyev, the steppe's the thing. Whether miming a cavalry charge or approximating the flight of eagles in a Kalmuck ceremony, the company attacks each number with ramrod backs and bright faces, precise and impeccable...