Word: benefitting
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...damaging to organized sports as overzealous fans are the businessmen who manipulate the players and the games for their own benefit. Professional sorts is a product. National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle has said it many times, each time he talks about what is good for the game." And that commercialism has done serious damage to amateur sports. The damage is most active in football and basketball where the pros rely on colleges as their major league Granfed most of the seniors suiting up for The Game have as hope of playing professional ball next year, but they are still...
...addition, the United States sides continually with the most repressive elements in Central American society, the military and the oligarchy. These factions, often comprised of the major landowners in each country, benefit from U.S. demand for agricultural products and are likewise interested in preventing reform in the area. More important, since World War II members of the social and military upper classes have been willing to carry out Washington's top priority: the prevention and eradication of Communism in the hemisphere. LaFeber quotes a 1950 memorandum by George Kennan on U.S. policy in Central America...
...left with some basic questions concerning the division of powers in our government. What constitutes a true threat to the United States? Is it defined too narrowly by the Resolution? Is the time limit justified, and does it benefit the U.S.? Who should have more power over our use of force. Congress or the President? This is perhaps the most important question concerning the War Powers Resolution. A good example of this controversial balance occurred with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. In 1965, President Johnson was given essentially unlimited power to fight Vietnam by an overwhelming majority of Congress. The only...
Robert Ross, president of the Extension School's student government, said yesterday the greater popularity of Extension courses "comes down to a question of cost-benefit analysis...
...public opinion mobilizes less effectively in some cases than others, and firestorms gather slowly over arcane or complex issues. Secrecy or distance shrouds excessive power from its best restraint. And if a President's action is swift enough, decisive enough, reactive outcry may be too late. Allende could benefit from no fire-storm, when the Nixon White House contributed to his downfall...