Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move the university into the front rank, the commission, whose co- chairmen are Ralph Davidson, chairman of the board of Time Inc., and Harold Enarson, president emeritus of Ohio State University, makes 29 recommendations. The key one is "to restructure SUNY as a public benefit corporation." By this concept SUNY would become a semi-independent state body, with funds allocated in block grants, under control of the trustees. New construction would be paid for by additional state revenues. Thus SUNY's administrators would presumably have their hands free and enough money to run the store...
...Wang, who got a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1948 on his way from China to founding the hugely successful Wang Corp. of Lowell, Mass., who gave about $4 million: "My own education at Harvard was at the graduate level. It was and has been of great benefit to me. I believe deeply in the value of graduate study not only in applied fields, but in areas of pure research as well...
...been remarkable from the beginning because it clearly addresses the needs of the future, and does so in a manner that points the way for higher education over the rest of this century. There's no glitter, nothing extra about this drive. It's directed at achieving goals that benefit the most essential aspects of Harvard's mission...
...Phelps-Dodge copperworkers struck on July 1, 1983 after the company failed to sign a standard, industry-wide contract which all of the other companies in the industry did. Even after offers of substantial wage and benefit cuts by the copper workers, the company refused to continue to negotiate, but instead it hired non-union workers and began a movement to decertify the United Steel Workers of America from the right to bargain collectively on behalf of the workers. This means, in effect, that the copper mines would be de-unionized simply by firing all of the union labor...
...complaint, but it seems to have grown more urgent in recent years, especially when an attachment to nature has been increasingly defined as the manipulation of nature. It is not that no one appreciates birds and trees any more; only that nature is rarely thought to offer any serious benefit to the mind. Questions of the environment are almost always reduced to issues of politics. Most people no longer make personal identifications with nature, yet people recognize themselves as natural objects. Here, too, then, the absence of something worthwhile leads back to a dissociation from oneself...