Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into edgy juxtaposition the representatives of two subcultures that are ordinarily mutually exclusive. Those dark figures in the fields are Amish, members of the plainest of the plain (and pacifist) religious sects. Their faith forbids them to use the paraphernalia of modern life. They work their Pennsylvania farms without benefit of electricity or the internal combustion engine, and as a result lead lives that seem to the frantic urban outsider idyllic, exemplary and very fragile. That is precisely what a young widow named Rachel (the glowing Kelly McGillis) and her son Samuel (Lukas Haas) discover when they go to visit...
...city's social progressive coalition rent control is the sacred cow, the cornerstone of their platform. Councilors like Sullivan are vehemently opposed to any changes which would weaken the current to any changes which would weaken the current policy. Sullivan resists the notion that rent control should benefit only lower and moderate income groups, saying it should protect everyone from the inflated rates that would otherwise be caused by Cambridge's excessive housing demand...
...billion (including some off-budget outlays). That would be the smallest hike in 21 years. To achieve that goal, Reagan proposes to whack $42 billion out of what would be spent for nonmilitary purposes under existing law. He would freeze, curtail or even eliminate programs that benefit farmers, veterans, students, the sick, small businessmen, exporters and just about everybody else except Social Security recipients...
Despite students emphasis on the importance of choice, I believe that freshmen in fact would benefit most if they did not have such a choice. The current lottery simply generates enormous anxiety for freshmen during February and March. I still remember how traumatic it was to decide on our choice of house, and even witnessed rooming groups break up over the decision of which House to pick first. Since freshmen believe that each House is very different from the others, they are overly concerned about getting into the House that best suits them. Moreover, the lottery overemphasizes the perceived disparity...
...exposed to all his or her classmates during the year and could still pick roommates from the whole class. The choice of roommates is really essential and would not be limited to those freshmen who had beer assigned to the same House. All 12 residential Houses would benefit from the overall diversity of Harvard students...