Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves as comedic fifth columnists at NBC. The network executives, of course, mostly thought the players were crazy--until they caught on big. Hill and Weingrad are deft at dealing with all the infighting, as well as describing what the creative action was like inside MiG alley. They also benefit from a cast of characters that comes predrawn in broad outlines, like so many figures in a crazy coloring book. But the shading added by the authors is careful and, in the case of players elbowed out of the spotlight, like Laraine Newman and Garrett Morris, compassionate. Some of S.N.L...
...course, as a gesture of 350th good will, the university could always construct something on that site that would benefit both Harvard and Cambridge...
...when Krauthammer sees the U.S. doing the same thing in the Philippines, in Central America, and in Southern Africa, he is right. However, what this country is doing is of little benefit to democracy, or peace or the general welfare, in any of those places...
Suddenly there was a prospect of dramatic political unrest and repression in the former U.S. colony, which might ultimately pose a threat to the two important U.S. military bases on the islands, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. The growing confrontation promised to redound to the benefit of the increasingly powerful Communist New People's Army, whose insurgency will soon, in the Pentagon's view, pose a real military challenge to the Marcos regime...
...plaintiff rights and judicial history. The greatest frustration is that no one who can do something about it is looking at all the facets." The bitterness between the two professions by now is deeply felt, and lawyers in particular may feel they have little need to bend since they benefit from the status quo. But if attorneys decline to compromise, they could find reforms, even the least palatable ones, imposed on them...