Word: benefitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schedules at sorely congested airports serving five major cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Newark, Dallas and Atlanta. At Newark airport, for example, the airlines moved 13 of the 57 scheduled arrivals and departures out of the hectic 6 p.m.-to-7 p.m. time slot. Atlanta's notoriously busy Hartsfield Airport will benefit from a total of 203 schedule changes...
...Admissions Office encourages students to take a year-long break before entering Harvard and in fact, sometimes politely suggests the move to students whom it feels would benefit from an extra year's maturity. In addition, the Admissions Office sometimes offers students a deferred admit, saying that Harvard does not have enough housing to accept the person and suggests the student come back next year, Fitzsimmons says...
...deport certain aliens who fail to show a "clear probability" that they will be persecuted in their home country. Under another section of that law, many such aliens have been allowed to seek from the Justice Department a discretionary grant of asylum. But this alternative was of little practical benefit because in order to be eligible, they were often required by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to meet the same difficult test of clear probability. The evidence was not often at hand. "Refugees don't come with notes signed by death squads," says Immigration Lawyer Kip Steinberg...
...experts consulted, Catholic Neurosurgeon Robert J. White of Cleveland, finds the resulting document "ultraconservative." Patrick Steptoe, the British doctor who delivered Louise Brown, called the teaching "rather ridiculous," adding, "Our experiments may benefit a great deal of people in the future. I think it is perfectly moral to conduct them...
...people in the middle who would benefit most from this system, for it would put them in houses where they truly want to be, rather than in lodgings they chose in an effort to beat system...