Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Undergraduate Council last night tentatively agreed to sponsor a spring benefit concert at the Bright Hockey Center featuring the rock group R.E.M. The event would replace an earlier proposal to host the Grateful Dead, which was vetoed by College officials for safety and other logistical reasons...
Lingering double-digit inflation and high unemployment, not budget or benefit cuts, were largely to blame, asserted census officials. Nonetheless, on Capitol Hill, the study prompted House Democrats to introduce a bill that would raise the federal contribution to Medicaid, Aid to Families with Dependent Children and other major welfare programs by $ 10.5 billion a year...
...Atlantic, to be implemented over a period of years. On that basis European leaders could defend cooperation with the U.S. as something they sought as a matter of their own conviction and in their own national interest. American leaders would have a rational, understandable policy to defend and would benefit from dealing with a more equal partner. A new era of allied creativity and American dedication could give inspiration to the generation that has come to maturity since World War II and since the postwar crises that infused NATO's founders with their sense of common purpose...
...problem inherent in free societies. Democratic governments around the world have found it easy to give out favors and almost impossible to take them back. Writes Samuel Brittan, a British economic commentator, in his new book The Role and Limits of Government: "Each of us wants the benefit of services while transferring the cost to some other group; we evade the problem of deciding who should be the loser...
...undergraduates they, in turn, neglect, are too often frustrated in their own efforts to grow intellectually in an environment which should have so much to offer. If the changes that are to come in Harvard University's administration signal a reversal in this trend, it can only be of benefit to the entire Harvard community. Emily Sochmer GSAS. Department of History