Word: reap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nepotism starts with Deng Xiaoping, whose eldest son, Deng Pufang, 44, heads the giant China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped. Government investigators say Pufang, who was crippled when Red Guards threw him from a window during the Cultural Revolution, allegedly helped a Chinese conglomerate gain tax-exempt status and reap vast profits for fraudulent work. Pufang denies the charges. The names of other relatives of leaders read like entries in a Chinese Who's Who. Among them: Chi Haotian, 59, Chief of Staff of the People's Liberation Army and son-in-law of President Yang Shangkun; Li Tieying...
...Continental Airlines unions during a 1983 strike. Continental machinists now make a maxiumum of $16 per hour, $2.50 per hour less than machinists in the rest of the industry. Some carriers pay their top machinists more than $19 per hour. Lorenzo wants to run a non-union airline and reap windfall profits for himself and Texas Air. The man is a greedy slime...
...PBHA's stance has never wavered--other programs, whether HAND or others, are welcomed to come aboard and reap the fruits of the Association. Anthony Romano President, PBHA Maria A. Salas Vice President, PBHA
...simple lawsuit filed by one black employee who had been passed over for a promotion at General Motors. But by the time GM agreed to a settlement last week, the complaint had grown into a class-action suit representing some 10,000 workers, mostly clerical and managerial, who will reap millions of dollars in pay adjustments. The accusation: that GM's system for judging worker performance discriminated against blacks. "Evaluators were allowed to indulge their biases, conscious or unconscious," said Dennis James, lawyer for the plaintiffs...
Inside Sport, may reap even more profit from its February swimsuit issue. Luckily its pictures of Dallas star Charlene Tilton have drawn the attention of a gossip tabloid, and a few trashy articles about an actress may be all that's necessary for Inside Sport to sell more copies than it has in years...