Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 500 people and animals turned out for Curious George's 50th birthday party (casual attire), including George Plimpton, Zippy the chimp, and Harvard President Derek C. Bok. Proceeds of the $100-a-plate benefit went to aid a half million dollar fund drive for Philips Brooks House...
...Cambridge has a number of non-profit development corporations that could benefit from additional affordable housing funds," said Assistant City Manager Michael H. Rosenberg...
...says Neonatologist Lawrence Platt of the University of Southern California. Declares Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota: "Our fear is that somehow reproduction has shifted away from an act that creates a family into an arena in which money, profit and benefit for others start to enter...
...ethical problem with using the organs after the child is dead," says George Annas, professor of health law at Boston University School of Medicine. "The problem lies in the process of getting the child from alive to dead." There are certainly precedents for keeping donors alive artificially for the benefit of others. Accident victims, for example, are frequently kept on respirators to keep their organs fresh...
...hungry for hard currency to help finance growing debts to Western lenders and pay for imported products that they routinely mark down the price of their talent by one-half to one-fifth the going rate for similarly skilled performers from the West. The artists and athletes benefit by gaining a share of the hard-currency income as well as enhanced reputations and the coveted freedom to travel outside the bloc. The state benefits by taking a cut that can range from a modest 10% to a confiscatory...