Word: helpful
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About five or six of these local stores, estimated Siris, would have gone out of business without the help of this program. In addition to helping the Negro business-owners attain self-sufficiency, the group hopes eventually to help with the establishment of a Negro-run electronics corporation, a mutual fund, and maybe a supermarket, said Siris...
Gunther Schuller's Five Bagatelles, sandwiched as they were between two chestnuts, could not help but be a musical gourmet's delight. Written in a disjunct, motivic style that borrows almost as much from jazz as from serial technique, they presented problems of cohesion and continuity similar to those of the Dallapiccola 'Cello Concerto performed by the HRO last spring. This time, however, the orchestra succeeded. Rather than struggling frantically through the notes, the players were in sufficient control of the music to interpret it and make it come alive...
...deans felt that giving students their MCAT results would help them decide where to send their medical school applications, said Perry J. Culver '37, Associate Dean for Admissions at Harvard Medical School...
Former Senator Maurine D. Neuberger (D-Ore.), Head of Radcliffe's South House, said that the vote "cannot help but have an effect on the policy-makers in Washington...
Although the Yale faculty decision should help eliminate student preoccupation with grade averages, the new system is no radical innovation. The four new grading categories--fail, pass, high pass, and honors--are little more than polite words for letter grades. The faculty did refuse, however, to set any guidelines for these categories, thereby making cumulative averages or specific class standings meaningless. The move will undoubtedly encourage some students to take more of the difficult courses that they would otherwise avoid...