Word: benefitting
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Some professors say they get the greatest benefit from seeing students' individual comments. "I don't get a great deal out of the numbers. I learn from thoughtful comments about the course," says Michael B. McElroy. Rotch Professor of Atmospheric Science...
...election year in Greece, and for Papandreou's benefit the Soviets gave the visit all the trappings of international diplomacy, although neither side offered major political concessions. The mercurial Papandreou seemed content with yet another demonstration of his aggressively independent style in East-West relations. His occasional anti-U.S. rhetoric and his jabs against NATO (see box) are based on the conviction that a fellow NATO ally, Turkey, and not the Soviet Union, represents the greatest threat to Greece's security...
Whatever the risks, tan enthusiasts seem willing to overlook them for the immediate benefit: a healthy-looking golden glow. Says Rob Bernstein, 31, who spends 30 minutes each weekday at a tanning salon in Dallas: "I think a year- round tan is a good, successful, power look. It's just a part of good grooming." Better yet, a tan in the dead of winter implies that the wearer has the money and leisure to travel to exotic, sunny locales. Says Jeff Russell, 23, of Evanston, Ill.: "It's a conversation piece. People are always asking, 'Where have you been...
Sound familiar? It should: the corrupted priest following for the modifications made here for the benefit of the TV generation) has been around and has been satirized since the earliest days of the Roman Catholic Church. Yet Farley is the latest, the most inventive and complex, in this reliquary of triteness, this film of continuous banality. Lemmon copes admirably: at moments reminiscent of Ronald Reagan at his complacent best, he creates with terrifying familiarity a portrait of the sycophantic politician per excellence. He oozes charm, exudes insincerity, succeeding so well, in fact, that the only thing priestly about this...
...better position than most to weather such cuts, decries the proposal as "a cruel joke." Says New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial, the president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors: "In the name of deficit reduction, the budget proposes to cut or eliminate nearly every federal investment of benefit to the cities...