While society and policymakers need to recognise the key role that universities play in generating new thinking, driving growth and overcoming the great challenges we face, institutions must ensure a commitment to public benefit sits at the heart of their ethos.
However, some in the social-security department are having second thoughts.Widows' benefits sit oddly in the modern welfare state.
Then, one night, at a benefit, he sat next to the head of design for Banana Republic.
I was lucky to find a health care team that talked honestly about risks and benefits, then sat back and let the patient decide.
Labor unions and other worker advocacy groups had criticized the Obama administration for the delays, saying the Office of Management and Budget — known for insisting on thorough cost-benefit analyses — sat on the proposal for more than two years.
The 'them' and 'us' audience division of benefits claimants sat opposite well-educated journalists seemed like another ploy from Channel 4 to stoke the embers of the debate, and did little to stop the endless shouting that drowned out the speakers.
If you imagine the £500 in benefits as a pile of pound coins it is the housing benefit that sits at the top of the stack.
The whole idea of star-studded, do-goody benefit shows sits sour with most folks thanks to billionaires like Bono acting like playing a single free show makes them Albert Fucking Schweitzer.
Clegg knows the exact detail of every benefit because he sat on the so-called "quad" committee that pored over the spending review.
The N.C.A.A. ruled last March that he had to repay $11,800 in improper benefits and sit out the remainder of the 2010 season and nine more games this season.
