Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ironies of the cultural festival--the mark of both its short-comings and its success--was that it seemed to benefit those on stage as much as those in the audience. If you took away the Din and Tonics, Debbie Allen's guest-star appearance, and President Bok's attendance among the crowd in Sanders Theater, what you had, simply, was a unique chance for students from minority backgrounds to express their place in the community as vital, contributing members; the proceeds from the event went to benefit local charities, not the minority groups involved...
...College Work-Study Program (CWSP) pays 70 percent of the wages of needy students, provided that they work for a non-profit organization. This makes work-study students valuable to low-budget agencies which benefit from the work of college students. However, colleges and universities fall into the non-profit category, and at many--including Harvard--most or all of work-study students are snapped up by the numerous on-campus employers...
This means, for the benefit of the great unwashed who have never seen a Pudding show, that every slice of dialogue is a self-transcending attempt at stupider jokes than the ones before. And the authors have outdone themselves this year. Whether it's the Bible, Consumer Reports, or the game-show circuit, Jess Bravin and Peter Sagal have plumbed the depths of Americana, Harvardiana, banality and even hallowed Tradition to create some of the longest strings of groan-inducing one-liners in history...
...feel I benefit almost as much as the kids from this type of program because I'm making money to pay my term bills while giving something positive to the community," says Cazares...
...critiques of the junta, often exposing Pinochet's weakness within the ruling elite. They are printed and read by perhaps 5000 people. The tiny circulation of these magazines insure that the cost to the junta of their being read by a handful of intellectuals is far outweighed by the benefit of bringing them before the U.N. as proof of Chile's free press. The junta knows also that many Chileans cannot read and that those who read these unsanctioned publications often pay a price not listed on the front cover...