Word: benefited
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Possible inequities touch both consumers at the institutions and their competitors--for example, who is to decide that only 23 or 60 schools should share financial aid or financial information that might benefit all schools? On the flip side, many other schools not involved in these meetings essentially set their tuition levels from them, reasoning that higher price automatically generate greater prestige and more applicants...
THAT'S why I wish my activist friends would get the news. Rent control hurts the most vulnerable members of society for the benefit of a few people who get "a good deal" on their rents. It's the classic example of the "pull-up-the-ladder syndrome," as Washington Monthly editor Charles Peters calls psuedo-liberal programs that hurt the folks at the bottom...
Pittman said that with society becoming increasingly image oriented, successful use of television has taken on a critical role. He criticized Democrats for failing to use television to their own benefit in the last presidential election and for attacking Republicans for their TV efforts...
Glass designer Karen R. Hastings, the daughter of North House Master J. Woodland Hastings, sang in the North House Opera while in high school. She says that being a master's child let her benefit from Harvard life, even though she was never a student here. "I was exposed to a broader world at a younger age," she says. "A lot of interesting people were always coming to talk...
...best gas in town all decide on gas prices, and also on the discount they give preferred (even "needy") customers. Further, the practice raises the question of whether the service station owners fix the wages of their attendants, or the price for accessories like windshield wipers. The practice may benefit customers and workers; it may not. But it is clearly illegal...