Word: reap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...center of a new embroilment last week. The cause of the row: Watt's alleged mismanagement of the Federal Government's coal-leasing program, which, according to a House Appropriations Committee report, permitted the energy industry to buy coal-leasing rights at "fire sale" prices and reap "windfall profits" at taxpayers' expense...
...seasons began by breaking down time into usable units: a time to plow, a time to sow, a time to reap. Distinctly, intensely different periods of the year calibrated time and made it manageable. They enforced disciplines. Now, people often create their own units of usable time without such explicit reference to the external seasons. There are the business seasons and the school seasons. There are model years for cars and fiscal years for budgets. Those man-made schedules are wheels within the abiding great wheel, less noticed now, of the calendar...
...Atlanta-based company called AGRI-PIK Services, Inc., intends to reap profits from the PIK program by bringing together participating farmers and their suppliers. Though farmers will not receive the Government grain until harvest time, they do have certificates showing how much grain they will get then. AGRI-PIK has devised a system whereby a farmer can use the certificate to obtain credit from a number of suppliers...
...from dipping below $30 in the U.S. Says McKie: "It's a matter of national security." But the Administration is against imposing such a tax any time soon. Said Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "Why not give the consumer a break?" The White House apparently wants the public to reap all it can from OPEC's travails...
...fears. Said one victim of the disease: "All I saw was example after example reinforcing the so-called leper mentality toward herpes." From the minority, however, there was little sympathy for the afflicted. Many quoted the Bible, particularly Galatians 6: 7: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...